--- ---  # Read the Original Review of Joan Aiken's 'Masterpiece' _The Wolves of Willoughby Chase_  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Sep 3, 2015 10:31 PM UTC  Doubleday Books for Young Readers  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Sep 3, 2015 10:31 PM UTC When Joan Aiken—who would have celebrated her 91st birthday on Friday—first appeared in the pages of TIME, the author didn’t even get the honor of having her full name in the review of her work. Rather, she was “Poet Conrad Aiken’s daughter Joan.” But, as we revisit that review in honor of the birth of the author, who died in 2004, it’s clear that her daughter-of designation didn’t mean that her talent was less than stand-alone. In fact, the unbylined reviewer raved in a 1963 pre-Christmas round-up of new books for children, the book she had written was the year’s stand-out story: --- > “” --- **_Read the full story from 1963, here in the TIME Vault:_** [From Pooh to Salinger](http://time.com/vault/issue/1963-12-13/page/123/) Joan Aiken's Wolves of Willoughby Chase: Read a 1963 Review ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4022426/joan-aiken-wolves-of-willoughby-chase-review/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4022426/joan-aiken-wolves-of-willoughby-chase-review/"},"headline":"Read the Original Review of Joan Aiken's 'Masterpiece' The Wolves of Willoughby Chase","datePublished":"2015-09-03T22:31:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:41:28.861Z","description":"The author was born Sept. 4, 1924","url":"https://time.com/4022426/joan-aiken-wolves-of-willoughby-chase-review/","keywords":["Books","author"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta245f97ee4eb0ddd/69886239428a9e7b1cccef2a/51fkbk5a5fl-_sx337_bo1204203200_.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lily Rothman","jobTitle":"Rothman is managing editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta245f97ee4eb0ddd/69886239428a9e7b1cccef2a/51fkbk5a5fl-_sx337_bo1204203200_.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Wolves of Willoughby Chase","caption":"Wolves of Willoughby Chase","creditText":"Doubleday Books for Young Readers","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4022426/joan-aiken-wolves-of-willoughby-chase-review/","name":"Read the Original Review of Joan Aiken's 'Masterpiece' The Wolves of Willoughby Chase"}}]}] ```