![]() ![]() Who exactly is Aidan? Before long, Aidan has befriended a giant and a weredog, and excited the ire and interest of Mr. Then 12-year-old Aidan appears from an orphanage, fleeing Stalkers, he says, and seeking refuge. Stock insists that Andrew hire his alluring, elvish niece. ![]() Stock insists that he hire her large and lumpen nephew, and Mr. ![]() Stock (no relation to one another), he's more than busy. Andrew has no idea, but when he moves into his grandfather's cottage and also inherits the cantankerous housekeeper and gardener, Mr. In this diverting novel, Professor Andrew Hope is bemused when his magician grandfather bequeaths him his house and "field-of-care" – whatever that is. In her new offering, Enchanted Glass (HarperCollins, 332 pages, $18.99, ages 9+), she does it again. Despite the massive outpouring of children's fantasies in the last decade, England's Diana Wynne Jones can still knock the socks off just about all of them – for humour, intelligence, character, originality, inventiveness, insight. ![]()
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