FICTION
Released: April 1, 2011
"Stylistically, these stories are very much from another era (two of them were originally published under the pseudonym Nicholas Dee), but the moral insights in them are timeless."
Darkly whimsical stories, most of them from the 1950s and six of them previously unpublished, by the late author best known for the fanciful Wolves of Willoughby Chase series and Jane Austen sequels.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 28, 2008
"Readers searching for magical chapters and those who have read the author's novels should enjoy these tales. (Short stories. 10-14)"
Gathered under one cover from several Aiken collections, the magical, eccentric and very British Armitage family reappears in a collection of 24 stories, four never before published.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Feb. 1, 2005
"The whole has the feeling of references so intimate that they don't entirely cohere for an outside audience, but children may be seduced by the radiant color and quirky characterizations. (Picture book. 6-9)"
CHILDREN'S
Released: Jan. 11, 2005
"She will be greatly missed. (Fiction. 10+)"
Dido and Piers are on a mission to find a claimant to the throne of England because the current king would rather be a painter.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: June 10, 2003
"Fans of the long-running "Wolves" series or not, readers won't be able to turn the pages of its wild, nonstop new entry fast enough. (Fiction. 11-13)"
CHILDREN'S
Released: Feb. 1, 1999
"Fans will be happy to see feisty Dido in action again, and while there is foul game afoot, the novel's end finds the clever lass and company in search of yet another adventure. (Fiction. 12-15)"
From Aiken (Cold Shoulder Road, 1996, etc.), a continuation of the sturdy adventures of Dido Twite.
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