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I Capture the Castle is the first novel of English author Dodie Smith, written during the Second World War when she and her husband Alec Beesley, an English conscientious objector, moved to California. She longed for home and wrote of a happier time, unspecified in the novel apart from a reference to living in the 1930s. Smith was already an established playwright and later became famous for writing the children's classic The Hundred and One Dalmatians.

If anyone was going to give words to this classic, it had to be Morpurgo. A perfect book, perfect story, perfectly told.' - Angels & UrchinsAfter Disney released the film rights to the novel in the late 1990s, Heidi Thomas wrote a screen adaptation. [4] This resulted in a 2003 feature film directed by Tim Fywell for BBC Films. It starred Romola Garai as Cassandra. In November 2015, a BBC Radio 4 adaption was broadcast, which was dramatised by Jane Rogers and directed by Nadia Molinari. It starred Holliday Grainger as Cassandra and Toby Jones as Mortmain. Hayley is About to Grow up". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol.30, no.38. 20 February 1963. p.1 ( Teenagers' Weekly) . Retrieved 15 September 2017– via National Library of Australia.

a b c d Gritten, David (11 July 2003). "The coming of age of a much-loved story". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2 October 2021.I don't want to use that 823 (English Fiction) Dewey topic, so I typed in: "248" and LibraryThing accepted my edit. The Snowman by Michael Morpurgo not only brings a much-loved tale to a new audience, it brings with it an extra layer of festive magic. We predict this book will fast become as much a part of every family Christmas as snuggling down with a hot chocolate to catch the classic animation on TV.' - JUNIOR magazine For example, "The Golden Thread: A Novel about St. Ignatius Loyola." I typed in the title, LibraryThing instantly suggested the cover, ISBN, edition, author, Dewey #: 823.914 and LC #: PR6007 .E84. At their first meeting the Cottons are amused and interested by the Mortmains. When they pay a call the very next day, however, the inexperienced Rose flirts openly with Simon and makes herself look ridiculous. Both brothers are repelled by this display and, as they walk away, Cassandra overhears them resolving to drop all acquaintance with the Mortmains. After an amusing episode involving a fur coat, however, all is forgiven and the two families become good friends. Rose decides that she really is taken with Simon, and Cassandra and Topaz scheme to get Simon to propose to her. Simon falls in love with Rose and proposes to her.