On the Eva Ibbotson scale of cuteness, this is somewhere between Which Witch? and Journey to the River Sea. There are some really horrible adults, but there are also some really lovely ones. The kids go on a journey of self-discovery, but it's mostly the kind that tells you that you CAN do useful th...
Loved it, we ended up reading it 6 times in a row, we had the whole library laughing. How many ways can you say backside? Simply wrote, great pictures, and an imagination jump start, bet you can think of a few yourself.
Okay, so I was just kidding when I shelved this as Biography. But the book does use the tone and structure of a biographical picturebook! I'm going to go out on a limb here and declare the 'Reality of Santa Claus' book its own genre. It's really unlike any other holiday or occasional books, especial...
So far this is the 3rd story I’ve read by Eva Ibbotson, but unfortunately it’s my least favorite. It starts charmingly enough with the Aunts explaining that kidnapping is bad, but in this case it needs to be done. They need someone who will continue on with their legacy of caring for the magical an...
2.5 stars.I really liked the first half and, to a lesser extent, the latter half.The British overload threatens to make me somehow probably illegally acquire enough funds to get me on a planeship to England. As if the accents there weren't enough.Ibbotson's writing is, and I don't say this much at a...
I really enjoyed this book. It's quite young and unrealistic, but it's the type of book I would like my hypothetical children to read one day. It teaches you to dream big, to not be scared of new things, that reading essential and that there are good people in the world, but also that the bad ones c...
I picked this book up knowing absolutely nothing about it. I was scrounging the tables at a library book sale, glanced briefly at the summary, and threw it in my bag because it sounded vaguely interesting. I had no idea how much of a treat I was in for! This book is incredibly charming and sweet. No...
This was a near-miss for me, but a miss all the same. There were some brilliant lines in this book, and one certainly champions all the Good Children, but there wasn't quite enough of anything to satisfy. There's no real depth to the characters, the animals are not described adequately, the indigeno...
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