The Star of Kazan
by:
Eva Ibbotson (author)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781405051521 (1405051523)
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Edition language: English
Oh my! I loved this just as much as I did the last time I read it! Such a sweet story and just the ending you are hoping for. Also, this book has the Spanish Riding School and the Lippizaner stallions in it. What more could a girl ask for. I hope my nieces like it as much as me.
Annika lives in Vienna, in the household of three professors, where’s she being raised by the two servants who found her in a church when she was just a few days old. Although she is very happy in her life and loves the professors as well as Ellie and Sigrid, the servants who found her, Annika has d...
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...
by Eva IbbotsonOpening line: “Ellie had gone into the church because of her feet.”When Ellie goes into the church, she discovers a baby left behind by its mother. The baby is named Annika and taken back to Vienna, where she grows up in the house of three professorial siblings.It’s a charming story, ...
3.5 starsThis is just a fun, very enjoyable tale of an foundling child, Annika, who was taken in by Sigrid and Ellie, the servants of a trio of professors in Vienna. She has a happy life there with her adopted mother Ellie, her "aunt" and "uncles", and her many friends throughout the town. She daydr...
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