Eva ibbotson biography summary form

Eva Maria Charlotte Michelle Ibbotson (née Wiesner; born 21 January – 20 October ) was a British novelist born in Austria to a Jewish family who fled the Nazis. She fryst vatten known for her children's literature. Some of her novels for adults have been reissued for the young adult market. The historical novel Journey to the River Sea (Macmillan, ) won her the Smarties Prize in category 9–11 years, garnered an unusual commendation as runner-up for the Guardian Prize, and made the Carnegie, Whitbread, and Blue Peter shortlists. She was a finalist for the Guardian Prize at the time of her death. Her last book, The Abominables, was among four finalists for the same award in

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Parental Guidance[]

• Reading age: varies between books, youngest around 8+
• Read aloud age: varies between books, youngest around 7+

Varies between books, but overall fairly suitable for 8+.

List of Books[]

• Journey to the River ()
• The Secret of Platform 1

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  It is with a heavy heart that I have just turned the final page of Magic Flutes by Eva Ibbotson. This heaviness has nothing at all to do with the contents of the book – it is simply a result of the unavoidable fact that I have now read all 5 of Eva Ibbotson’s historical romances, and will never again experience the utter joy of reading one of them for the first time.

  I first discovered Eva Ibbotson by way of Booktuber Lucy Powrie (lucythereader) during the first months of the pandemic in Longtime readers of this blog will know that I am a big fan of Lucy’s channel, and have found several new beloved classics and historical fiction novels thanks to her recommendations. When I heard her talk about Eva Ibbotson’s romantic, culturally rich and comforting historical fiction books, then, I knew I had to give them a try. And so, over the past three years, I’ve had the pleasure of discovering the wonder of these novels for myself.

  Eva Ibbotson is most widely known as a children’

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  Obituary: Eva Ibbotson

  Eva Ibbotson

  21 January – 20 October

  Elizabeth Hammill writes&#;

  Eva Ibbotson, born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner in Vienna, has died at her home in Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne, aged She was the beloved author of a diverse and increasingly rich body of fiction that included madcap magical ‘romps’ such as Which Witch? and The Secret of Platform 13, ‘old fashioned’ historical adventures like Journey to the River Sea and adult historical romances, recently reissued for Young Adults.

  Eva’s career as a novelist began late with the publication of The Great Ghost Rescue () by Macmillan as she approached fifty, but, as her agents Curtis Brown wrote: ‘Once she got going, she never stopped.’ Recognition of her singular gift for antic invention, satire, comic pacing and making mayhem with magic, fairy tales and folklore came early with the shortlisting of Which Witch? () for the Carnegie Medal. Just this year, her latest novel The

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