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The Ogre Downstairs | Caspar, Johnny and Gwen have to put up with their new step-family, boys, Douglas and Malcolm and of course the Ogre. The Ogre presents both Jonny and Malcolm with chemistry sets and family rivalries grow worse as the boys try to out-do each other with stinks, but things get more serious when it turns out that some of the chemicals have remarkable properties. | |
by Diana Wynne Jones | ||
Score: 8 | ||
Published: 1974 | ||
Read: August 25th 2007 |
Comments
johnnysocks7 said on June 27th 2020, 02:39:27
Re-read this June 2020, after getting Laila to read it :) Must read it to Molly too.
John said
Great - very enjoyable 25(?) years after I first read it! Super story with little bits of magical chemistry popping up all over the place, and the kids constantly charging around like a herd of elephants from one disaster to the next.