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The Ogre Downstairs

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Chosen by Cressida Cowell, Guest Editor May 2020 and Jonathan Stroud, Guest Editor November 2010

Guest Editor, Cressida Cowell said; "This book has wicked stepfathers, and chemicals that make you fly. When I was nine years old, I read it to my brother and sister, my cousins, to anyone who would listen, and 35 years later, I read it to my own children. I have never met a child who does not love this book."

Jonathan Stroud, said "A generation before the arrival of a certain boy wizard, Diana Wynne Jones had already perfected the art of comic fantasies: stories in which ordinary children must contend with sudden incursions of magic into their everyday world. The Ogre Downstairs is one of her greatest books and blew me away when I first read it, aged about 10. Three children, Casper, Johnny and Gwinny, live miserably with their mother, their new stepfather (the ‘ogre’) and their two stepbrothers. One day the ogre brings home two strange chemistry sets as gifts for the warring siblings – and it isn’t long before magical chaos erupts. The brilliance of the book lies in the way it mixes the family’s very ordinary domestic problems with the anarchy of magic. Some of the set-pieces are extraordinary: no one who’s read about the plague of living toffee bars is ever likely to forget it!"

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