Eva Ibbotson

I think The Great Ghost Rescue was my first Eva Ibbotson book, lo, these many years ago. (Having just bought a Kindle copy to read with Marcus, I see the copyright date is 1975 so it isn’t exactly a new book.) Years later a found a copy of A Company of Swans in a second hand bookshop and fell in love with her adult (now marketed as YA) novels. In typical fashion, I bought them up second hand, read several but never read them all. My plan was to reread those and leave the children’s books, but while looking for covers I found myself feeling nostalgic for some of those children’s stories as well. Everything is listed here, but I’m not holding myself to reading the children’s ones if I choose not to.

Just Finished	Up Next

I reread Magic Flutes earlier this year (such a lovely book) and, as I said above, I did buy The Great Ghost Rescue to read with Marcus. We’re up to chapter 5 and enjoying it so far. If we wants to keep reading the books, I’ll keep on going with him. Otherwise, it’s a case of how I feel at the time.

The Great Ghost Rescue	Which Witch?	A Countess Below Stairs (aka The Secret Countess)	Magic Flutes (aka The Reluctant Heiress)
1975 READ Own in ebook	1979 READ Own in ebook	1981 READ Own in paper, ebook	1982 READ Own in paper, ebook
A Glove Shop in Vienna	A Company of Swans	The Haunting of Hiram (aka The Haunting of Hiram C. Hopgood aka The Haunting of Granite Falls)	Madensky Square
1984 Unread Out of Print	1985 Read Previously Own in paper	1987 Unread Own in ebook	1988 Unread Own in paper
Not Just a Witch	The Morning Gift	The Secret of Platform 13	Dial-a-Ghost
1989 Unread	1993 Unread Own in paper, ebook	1994 Unread	1996 Unread
A Song for Summer	Island of the Aunts (aka Monster Mission)	Journey to the River Sea	The Star of Kazan
1997 Unread Own in paper, ebook	1999 Unread Own in ebook	2001 Read Previously Own in paper	2004 Unread
The Beasts of Clawstone Castle	The Dragonfly Pool	The Ogre of Oglefort	One Dog and his Boy
2005 Unread	2008 Unread	2010 Unread	2011 Unread

Hmm, I thought I had copies of Madensky Square and A Song for Summer but I can’t find either. I have a feeling I might have loaned/given them to my mother because I had never quite got around to reading them. I will have to check with her. She’s coming up to stay in a few weeks, so maybe if she has them, I can ask her to bring them back. I’m going to leave them listed as “owned in paper” for now, but I’ll change it if she doesn’t have them either.