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Eagerly-awaited new novel from the author of the bestselling Journey to the River Sea. In a tiny alpine church, on a June day in 1897, an abandoned baby girl is found by a middle-aged cook from Vienna. So begins the unusual childhood of Annika, brought up in the house of three eccentric professors by their two domestic servants. By the age of seven she can bake and ice a three-tiered cake and polish parquet floors to perfection. Her life in this golden city of music, fabulous food, and the beautiful Lippizana stallions who dance before the Emperor Franz Joseph is greatly blessed-until her unknown mother tracks her down and comes to claim her.... Here is another Ibbotson masterpiece of wonderful adventure, packed with dozens of unforgettable characters who weave their way through a faultless, intricate plot of enthralling events-sometimes hilarious, sometimes bleak, but always marvellously entertaining. It offers every reader who loved Journey to the River Sea an enchanting new world of fictional riches. It is a timeless classic, for readers young and old. - One of the biggest events in the children`s publishing year, backed by a major trade and consumer promotion - Journey to the River Sea won the Smarties Gold Award, was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, and was runner-up for the Whitbread Children`s Book of the Year and the Guardian Fiction Award.
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Eva Ibbotson writes for both adults and children. Her books for children, with their fantastic creatures, outrageous characters, dark humour and brilliant storytelling, have much in common with Roald Dahl's. Journey To The River Sea (033039715X) won the Smarties Prize Gold Award and was Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Which Witch? (0 330 26586 5) was runner-up for the Carnegie Medal and The Secret Of Platform 13 (0 330 39801 6) was shortlisted for the Smarties Prize. She lives in Newcastle.
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*Starred Review* Gr. 4-8. Ibbotson's latest is a galloping historical novel set in the Austro-Hungarian empire. Abandoned as an infant, 12-year-old Annika lives in Vienna with the cook and housemaid who discovered her as well as their employers, a sibling trio of eccentric professors. Annika helps with the housework and grows up comfortably in the warm house on a beautiful square, surrounded by friends. Still, Annika dreams of reuniting with the unknown parents who abandoned her, and when an elegant, charismatic woman appears, birth certificate in hand, Annika embraces her as her long-lost mother and agrees to move to the family's remote northern castle. The grand estate isn't what she expected, though, and she fights waves of homesickness as troubling clues begin to emerge about her new family. Ibbotson leads her characters through a delightful, breathless adventure that skillfully enfolds deliciously cruel villains, crumbling aristocratic families, stolen jewels, and a cast of lovable, intrepid professors and children determined to rescue Annika from danger. Viennese-born Ibbotson layers her suspenseful story with exquisite details that contrast the city's cozy clamor with the bone-chilling northern landscape, beautifully echoing Annika's plight. Masterful entertainment in the tradition of Joan Aiken's The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1962), this will please Harry Potter readers, too. Hawkes' lively black-and-white drawings extend the adventure and nostalgic flavor. Gillian Engberg
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- PublisherPan MacMillan
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1405020547
- ISBN 13 9781405020541
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number2
- Number of pages388
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