Believing Is Seeing: Seven Stories

By Diana Wynne Jones

Book Overview

Believing is seeing, as the title of this outstanding collection of fantasies proclaims. And reading is seeing more than you've ever imagined when in the masterful hands of acclaimed author Diana... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688168434
• ISBN13: 9780688168438
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Greenwillow Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.8" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

An interesting collection

If you are unfamiliar with the author, these stories will provide an introduction to her writings. The stories have appeared previously in other collections. The seven fantasies are of different quality and subject matter, and cover 165 pages (including seven cover pages) in an easy-to-read font. I am looking at the hard-cover edition.I especially liked "What the Cat Told Me," a 22-page story about an unusual cat that becomes involved with wizards; and "The Girl Who Loved the Sun," about a girl who turns herself into a tree. Other readers will undoubtedly have their own favorites. The stories are suitable for pre-teen to teenage readers who enjoy fantasy literature.

I read this book last summer and still love it!

I've read a whole bunch of other books from last summer to now, most of which I thought were very good. But I still love the stories Diana Wynne Jones has writen. I'm reread her Chrestomanci Quartet again and am looking for some further writings by Jones. She is all in all one of my favorite authors. I liked 'Enna Hittims'. A must for any death hard fan of Jones.

A fun variety of magic

Just to add to Eleanor's review, since she hadn't read Enna Hittims: Anne, who is home sick with the mumps (and who is very bored), makes up the hero Enna, an inch-high girl armed with an enchanted sword, who has wonderful adventures in the changing scenery that is Anne's bed (including Anne covered up different ways with her blanket). There is a wonderful twist to the story when Anne makes countless drawings of Enna and her friends which results in Anne getting a turn at being a hero!Worth reading, because it sets one's mind working, trying to guess what might happen next, and the surprises are fun to find in these short stories.