Comments on: Top 100 Children’s Novels #93: Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson

By: Genevieve

Genevieve — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:48:29 +0000

Just learned of her a couple years ago, and devoured this and all her other realistic novels – didn’t get in to the magic ones for some reason but should try again.

By: Elizabeth Bird

Elizabeth Bird — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:21:58 +0000

Now informing everyone I know that the term “Elsie Dinsmoring” should be a common phrase.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:26:19 +0000

I love this one! Although I don’t think I put it on my list, but my list was very random – can never make up my mind to “favorites”. I always think of Journey as Ibbotson’s take on A Little Princess. Wouldn’t Sara Crewe have been so much cooler if she had gone sailing down the Amazon instead of Elsie Dinsmoring her way through poverty?

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:24:45 +0000

Never read this one, I’ll have to put it on my lookout list. My favorite is a very silly Which Witch? which I came across at nearly the beginning of my dramatic plunge into fantasy reading. I must have read it nearly 30 times and it started me learning my monster and magic vocabulary early on.

By: Ruth Guerrier-pierre

Ruth Guerrier-pierre — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:12:05 +0000

I love this book and all the ones of read so far.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:02:07 +0000

It always makes me sad that Eva Ibbotson continues to fly beneath the radar for so many people. She paints such vivid pictures of her worlds. I was agonising over whether to include this or The secret of platform 13 on to my list. A bereavement and out of town trip saw me unable to submit it so luckily I never did have to make that decision.

By: DaNae

DaNae — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:22:34 +0000

Another one to read, as as luck would have it a book I personally own. I wouldn’t cry if ISLAND OF THE AUNTS, the only Ibbotson I’ve read to date, also makes the list.

By: Sondy

Sondy — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:27:10 +0000

This is the second one I haven’t read. I’ll have to remedy that!