Earwig has to figure out how to escape or make things better for herself, or live in torment forever.Įarwig herself is very different compared to most Ghibli protagonists. The movie is basically about Aya (or Earwig) getting adopted by a witch, and the witch wants to use her as a slave. Not as good as other Ghibli movies, but still entertaining the whole way through. She was Paul Zelinsky's older daughter's favorite author in elementary school.This movie is receiving a whole lot of backlash for the CGI-animation (it's a TV movie with a limited budget, guys, not a cinema release) and the "dissappointing" plot, but I thought the movie was fun.
Her books for children and adults, including the popular Chrestomanci series, won awards around the world. But she doesn't know what she is in for, as Earwig learns, with the help of Thomas, a talking cat, to give her mistress some of her own medecine.Įarwig and the Witch is the last novel written by Diana Wynne Jones (1934-2011), one of Britain's top fantasy and science fiction writers. Morwald staff, who found the baby Earwig on their doorstep with a cryptic note pinned to her clothing.Įarwig's happiness faces a major challenge when the raggety-ribby-faced Bella Yaga and her towering husband the Mandrake come to the orphanage looking for a child to adopt-and they choose Earwig! Bella Yaga thinks she is getting a menial servant to help her mix her potions for neighborhood clients.
But this is a fact not known to Earwig herself, and only guessed at by the St. She seems to get her way with anything and anybody, a quality that might well derive from her mother's having been a witch. Young Earwig has always found life much to her liking at St. “delightfully odd characters and eccentric magic” -starred review, PW “…utterly charming chapter book… illustrated with marvelous vitality”
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