Beginning with the Aunts, all of whoĪre borderline psychotic (one likes to play the violin for her favourite seal- it has very intelligent eyes another roams the Far East doing-inĬhefs that serve endangered animals with a wok the weirdest, IMHO, is the one who gave up on the island and lives in a normal house in England, collecting bathing scents).
This book are the human beings themselves. Islands populated with mystical beasts, and bat-crazy, self-involved adults Humour and wit that uses a mix of good-natured kids versus bad-natured kids, magical He lives in Gorham, Maine.Aunts is a bit richer in Ibbotson’s oeuvre of deadly knitting-needle sharp Seuss Wrote t he Cat in the Hat, Library Lion, My Little Sister Ate One Hare, My Little Sister Hugged an Ape, And to Think That We Thought That We'd Never Be Friends, The Road to Oz, Velma Gratch, and The Way Cool Butterfly. Kevin Hawkes is the author and illustrator of The Wicked Big Toddlah and The Wicked Big Toddlah Goes to New York, and is the illustrator of many well-loved books for young readers including Imagine That:! How Dr. Her last book, The Abominables, was one of eight books on the longlist for the same award in 2012. She was a finalist for the 2010 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize at the time of her death. For the historical novel Journey to the River Sea (Macmillan, 2001), she won the Smarties Prize in category 9–11 years, garnered unusual commendation as runner-up for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and made the Carnegie Medal, Whitbread Award, and Blue Peter Book Award shortlists.
Some of her novels for adults have been successfully reissued for the young adult market in recent years.
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