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Eva Maria Charlotte Michelle Ibbotson , more commonly known as Eva Ibbotson , was an Austrian-born British novelist, known for her children's books. Some of her novels for adults have been successfully reissued for the young adult market in recent years.

For the historical novel Journey to the River Sea , she won the Smarties Prize in category 9–11 years, garnered unusual commendation as runner up for the Guardian Prize, and made the Carnegie, Whitbread, and Blue Peter shortlists.

She was a finalist for the 2010 Guardian Prize at the time of her death. Her last book, The Abominables, was one of four finalists for the same award in 2012. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. January 1925 – 20. October 2010  •  Other names اوا ایبوتسون, 伊娃·伊博森

Works

A Countess Below Stairs
A Company of Swans
A Company of Swans
Eva Ibbotson
The Morning Gift
The Morning Gift
Eva Ibbotson
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Famous Eva Ibbotson Quotes

“You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.”

Eva Ibbotson book The Dragonfly Pool

Source: The Dragonfly Pool

“Not a frog, I hope?” he asked…She shook her head. “No. And if it was I wouldn’t kiss it, I promise you. I might kiss a prince if I could be sure he’d turn into a frog, but not the other way around.”

Eva Ibbotson book A Song for Summer

Source: A Song for Summer

“Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.”

Eva Ibbotson A Company of Swans

Source: A Company of Swans

“She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow had a scent it would smell like that [the rose]….”

Eva Ibbotson book A Countess Below Stairs

Source: A Countess Below Stairs

“Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls.”

Eva Ibbotson book A Countess Below Stairs

Source: A Countess Below Stairs

“And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.”

Eva Ibbotson book A Countess Below Stairs

Source: A Countess Below Stairs

Eva Ibbotson Quotes

“When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.”

Eva Ibbotson book A Countess Below Stairs

Source: A Countess Below Stairs

“She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence… they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good…”

Eva Ibbotson A Company of Swans

Source: A Company of Swans

“Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.”

Eva Ibbotson book A Countess Below Stairs

Source: A Countess Below Stairs

“But she had to know words. She had to know everything.”

Eva Ibbotson

“I want to live like music sounds."- Ruth”

Eva Ibbotson book The Morning Gift

Source: The Morning Gift

“They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?'
'It was books, admitted Miss Minton.
And Maia said, 'Good.”

Eva Ibbotson book Journey to the River Sea

Source: Journey to the River Sea

“The news should have terrified her, but it was difficult to be frightened of anything when she was sitting so close to Rom. 'I thought we had convinced him that I was leading a blameless life?' 'We had, till you burst out of that damnable cake.”

Eva Ibbotson A Company of Swans

Source: A Company of Swans

“For an instant she felt his touch on her cheek then he stepped back. There that was my ration for all eternity. People have died for less I dare say.”

Eva Ibbotson book A Countess Below Stairs

Source: A Countess Below Stairs

“Well, dear, it's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get into a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them.”

Eva Ibbotson book The Secret of Platform 13

Variant: It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them.
Source: The Secret of Platform 13

“One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda”

Eva Ibbotson book The Morning Gift

Source: The Morning Gift

“What are you afraid of then?
Not Being able to see, I think not seeing because your obsessed by something that blots out the world.”

Eva Ibbotson book A Song for Summer

Source: A Song for Summer

“one of the sisters started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good.”

Eva Ibbotson

Source: Island of the Aunts

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