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Star of Kazan

Ibbotson Eva
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781447265726
Publisert
2014-05-08
Utgiver
Vendor
Macmillan Children's Books
Vekt
276 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
131 mm
Dybde
35 mm
Aldersnivå
JC, 02
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
400

Forfatter
Ibbotson Eva

Biographical note

Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna in 1925 and moved to England with her father when the Nazis came to power. Ibbotson wrote more than twenty books for children and young adults, many of which garnered nominations for major awards for children's literature in the UK, including the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and the Whitbread Prize. Eva's critically acclaimed Journey to the River Sea won the Smarties Gold Medal in 2001. Set in the Amazon, it was written in honour of her deceased husband Alan, a former naturalist. Imaginative and humorous, Eva's books often convey her love of nature, in particular the Austrian countryside, which is evident in works such as The Star of Kazan and A Song for Summer. Eva passed away at her home in Newcastle on 20 October 2010.

Star of Kazan

Ibbotson Eva
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk
Ibbotson Eva
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk
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This year (thanks to a recommendation by Ella Risbridger on Instagram, of all places) I have binged on Eva Ibbotson, not her children’s books, but her elegantly written, witty and well-observed if (after a few) formulaic fables of emigrées with beautiful burnished hair fallen on hard times. I read one after another, and rather feel your Christmas might be brightened by doing the same. So may I suggest <i>A Song for Summer,</i> followed by <i>The Morning Gift</i>, then <i>The Secret Countess, A Company of Swans, Magic Flutes, Journey to the River Sea</i>, and <i>The Star of Kazan.</i>

- Nigella Lawson, The Sunday Times

Eva Ibbotson's hugely entertaining The Star of Kazan is a timeless classic for readers young and old.In 1896, in a pilgrim church in the Alps, an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook and a housemaid. They take her home, and Annika grows up in the servants' quarters of a house belonging to three eccentric Viennese professors. She is happy there, but dreams of the day when her real mother will come to find her. And sure enough, one day a glamorous stranger arrives at the door. After years of guilt and searching, Annika's mother has come to claim her daughter, who is in fact a Prussian aristocrat whose true home is a great castle. But at crumbling, spooky Spittal, Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her new-found family . . .
Les mer
An enthralling adventure set in turn-of-the-century Vienna. From the author of the bestselling Journey to the River Sea.
An enthralling adventure set in turn-of-the-century Vienna. From the author of the bestselling Journey to the River Sea.

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This year (thanks to a recommendation by Ella Risbridger on Instagram, of all places) I have binged on Eva Ibbotson, not her children’s books, but her elegantly written, witty and well-observed if (after a few) formulaic fables of emigrées with beautiful burnished hair fallen on hard times. I read one after another, and rather feel your Christmas might be brightened by doing the same. So may I suggest <i>A Song for Summer,</i> followed by <i>The Morning Gift</i>, then <i>The Secret Countess, A Company of Swans, Magic Flutes, Journey to the River Sea</i>, and <i>The Star of Kazan.</i>

- Nigella Lawson, The Sunday Times

Eva Ibbotson's hugely entertaining The Star of Kazan is a timeless classic for readers young and old.In 1896, in a pilgrim church in the Alps, an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook and a housemaid. They take her home, and Annika grows up in the servants' quarters of a house belonging to three eccentric Viennese professors. She is happy there, but dreams of the day when her real mother will come to find her. And sure enough, one day a glamorous stranger arrives at the door. After years of guilt and searching, Annika's mother has come to claim her daughter, who is in fact a Prussian aristocrat whose true home is a great castle. But at crumbling, spooky Spittal, Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her new-found family . . .
Les mer
An enthralling adventure set in turn-of-the-century Vienna. From the author of the bestselling Journey to the River Sea.
An enthralling adventure set in turn-of-the-century Vienna. From the author of the bestselling Journey to the River Sea.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781447265726
Publisert
2014-05-08
Utgiver
Vendor
Macmillan Children's Books
Vekt
276 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
131 mm
Dybde
35 mm
Aldersnivå
JC, 02
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
400

Forfatter
Ibbotson Eva

Biographical note

Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna in 1925 and moved to England with her father when the Nazis came to power. Ibbotson wrote more than twenty books for children and young adults, many of which garnered nominations for major awards for children's literature in the UK, including the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and the Whitbread Prize. Eva's critically acclaimed Journey to the River Sea won the Smarties Gold Medal in 2001. Set in the Amazon, it was written in honour of her deceased husband Alan, a former naturalist. Imaginative and humorous, Eva's books often convey her love of nature, in particular the Austrian countryside, which is evident in works such as The Star of Kazan and A Song for Summer. Eva passed away at her home in Newcastle on 20 October 2010.

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