Here.Try the movie. Studio Ghibli movies are worth watching at any age.

Thanks! good find :)

..and I'll check it Ghibli out.

Ironic

**FOR ME** the mental picture here is quite sufficient.

That's why I thought I knew it but wasn't sure - it was on the cover of the book when I bought it for my niece. My copy was much older and had a very different cover.

No Diana Wynne Jones book is too young for an adult. I was lucky enough to read her as a child, and kept picking up her books second hand wherever I found them. I encouraged some other like-minded adults to read them too. Thanks to J K Rowling, Wynne Jones' books underwent a rennaisance ("Quick! Find us a quality children's book that will sell!) and I have been able to pick up those I missed and those written after my time too.

For the record, Charmed Life is my favourite, The Homeward Bounders second.

Pretty much all of the animated films by Studio Ghibli, especially directed by Miyazaki, are pretty awesome.

this is worth repeating again
 

Less talk, more stunned-silence-evoking pictures. My contribution, taken yesterday in my neighborhood.

Ah. See, the wall grew around it.

I hope that the kid was'nt hurt to bad (quite an accident!)

Or did some smartass put it in while he was building the wall?

There goes the stunned silence.

did someone say stunned silence?