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Eva Ibbotson

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Born: January 20 1925

Died: 1919 10 20102010

Eva Ibbotson was a British novelist specializing in romance and children's fantasy.

She was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1925. When Hitler came into power, her family moved to England. She attended Bedford College, graduating in 1945; Cambridge University from 1946-47; and the University of Durham, from which she graduated with a diploma in education in 1965. Ibbotson had intended to be a physiologist, but was put off by the amount of animal testing that she would have to do. Instead, she married and raised a family, returning to school to become a teacher in the 1960s. Ibbotson was widowed with three sons and a daughter.

Ibottson began writing with the television drama 'Linda Came Today', in 1965. Ten years later, she published her first novel, The Great Ghost Rescue. Ibbotson has written numerous books including The Secret of Platform 13, Journey to the River Sea, Which Witch?, Island of the Aunts, and Dial-a-Ghost. She won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for Journey to the River Sea, and has been a runner up for many of major awards for British children's literature.

Her books are imaginative and humorous, and most of them feature magical creatures and places, despite the fact that she disliked thinking about the supernatural, and created the characters because she wanted to decrease her readers' fear of such things.

Some of the books, particularly Journey to the River Sea, also reflect Ibbotson's love of nature. Ibbotson wrote this book in honor of her husband , a former naturalist. The book had been in her head for years before she actually wrote it.

Ibbotson said she dislikes "financial greed and a lust for power" and often creates antagonists in her books who have these characteristics. Some have been struck by the similarity of "Platform 9 3/4" in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books to Ibbotson's The Secret of Platform 13, which came out three years before the first Harry Potter book.

Her love of Austria is evident in works such as The Star Of Kazan and A Song For Summer. These books, set primarily in the Austrian countryside, display the author's love for nature and all things natural.

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Eva Ibbotson

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Books from Eva Ibbotson

A Countess Below Stairs

The Secret of Platform 13

A Company of Swans

The Star of Kazan

The Reluctant Heiress

The Morning Gift

A Song for Summer

Which Witch?

Journey to the River Sea

Island of the Aunts

The Dragonfly Pool

One Dog and His Boy. Eva Ibbotson

Not Just a Witch

Dial a Ghost: Agen Hantu

The Beasts of Clawstone Castle

A Glove Shop in Vienna and Other Stories

The Great Ghost Rescue: Operasi Penyelamatan Hantu

The Haunting of Hiram

The Ogre of Oglefort

Fantasy Thriller Set (6): Coraline; the Secret of Platform 13; the House with Clock in Its Walls; Alice in Wonderland; Belle Praters Boy; the Wish Giver