expanded list of minz's books for children:
- diana wynne jones: howl's moving castle; dark lord of derkholm; chrestomanci books
- alan garner: weirdstone of brisigamen series, the owl service (alison milbank's contribution to my well-being!)
- susan cooper: the dark is rising sequence, but particularly the dark, greenwitch, and grey king.
- russell hoban: the mouse and his child; the frances stories; sea-thing child, marzipan pig
- joan aiken: midnight is a place, wolves chronicles
- philip pullman: his dark materials triology; clockwork; i was a rat
- ursula leguin: the earthsea series
- ian serrailler - the silver sword
- helen cresswell: the nightwatchmen, bagthorpes series
- sylvia waugh: the mennyms series, ormingat trilogy.