Book Cover Throwback: Howl’s Moving Castle
This week’s Book Cover Throwback: Howl’s Moving Castle.
Before it was an amazing film from Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, it was an excellent novel by Diana Wynne Jones. This cover is from the reprint, but I love it so much more than the original, which you can see below the reprint.
Here is the original.
The original makes it feel too much like a horror novel for kids. While there are scary elements to the story, the themes of believing in one’s self and finding beauty in unique things makes the reprint’s cover fit better in my opinion.
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Raven Oak
Award-winning and bestselling speculative fiction author Raven Oak is best known for Amaskan’s Blood (2016 Ozma Fantasy Award winner, EPIC Fantasy Award Finalist), Amaskan’s War (2018 UK Wishing Shelf Award YA Finalist), Class-M Exile, and numerous stories in anthologies.
She spent most of her K-12 education doodling stories and 500 page monstrosities that are forever locked away in a filing cabinet. When she's not writing, she's getting her game on, enjoying cartography and art, or staring at the ocean.
She lives in the Seattle, WA area with her husband, and their three kitties who enjoy lounging across the keyboard when writing deadlines approach.
Here is the original.
