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From: Hendon, Alison <A.Hendon>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 09:51:46 -0400
Thanks, Faith, for bringing Ibbotson's adult books forward. I love them all and found Star of Kazan to be particularly delightful because of the setting and the feeling which was more like her adult books than some of her other children's titles.
Alison
Faith Williams wrote: I want to add that Eva Ibbotson has written wonderful books officially for adults too. They are sometimes classed with romances, but they have the best qualities of the genre, like Twelfth Night. They're very literate, with a European touch of understood culture, and they're funny, and there are very good heroes and heroines and very bad villains, who are rude to the old or the handicapped, or just totally self?ntered. A Countess Below Stairs was one of the first, about Russian emigrees, but then one of my favorites is A Song for Summer. A Company of Swans is awfully good and so is Magic Flutes. I've read everything of hers I can get hold of -- big public libraries have them, and they're almost all available on Abebooks.com or Amazon used. Great for summer reading, or for any time you want to think the world will come out right.
Faith Williams
--- Steven Engelfried wrote:
Faith Williams, children's librarian DCPLibrary 698374 http://www.mybookmarks.com/public/fmwill H. 202 26518
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Received on Fri 13 May 2005 08:51:46 AM CDT
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 09:51:46 -0400
Thanks, Faith, for bringing Ibbotson's adult books forward. I love them all and found Star of Kazan to be particularly delightful because of the setting and the feeling which was more like her adult books than some of her other children's titles.
Alison
Faith Williams wrote: I want to add that Eva Ibbotson has written wonderful books officially for adults too. They are sometimes classed with romances, but they have the best qualities of the genre, like Twelfth Night. They're very literate, with a European touch of understood culture, and they're funny, and there are very good heroes and heroines and very bad villains, who are rude to the old or the handicapped, or just totally self?ntered. A Countess Below Stairs was one of the first, about Russian emigrees, but then one of my favorites is A Song for Summer. A Company of Swans is awfully good and so is Magic Flutes. I've read everything of hers I can get hold of -- big public libraries have them, and they're almost all available on Abebooks.com or Amazon used. Great for summer reading, or for any time you want to think the world will come out right.
Faith Williams
--- Steven Engelfried wrote:
Faith Williams, children's librarian DCPLibrary 698374 http://www.mybookmarks.com/public/fmwill H. 202 26518
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