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.