Eva Ibbotson's hugely entertaining The Star of Kazan is a timeless classic for readers young and old. In , in a pilgrim church in the Alps, an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook and a housemaid. They take her home, and Annika grows up in the servants' quarters of a house belonging to three eccentric Viennese professors/5(). · About the Author. Eva Ibbotson, born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner (–), 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 (Macmillan, ), she won the Smarties Prize in category 9–11 years, garnered Edition description: Reprint. · The Star of Kazan is the story of Annika - a young orphan girl in Vienna, who gets found and adopted by a servant and a housekeeper (Ellie and .
_ The Star of Kazan _ by Eva Ibbotson The Star of Kazan is a gorgeous dream of a novel. It tells the story of Annika, a foundling raised by two women, Ellie and Sigrid, who are servants in the wealthy household of three eccentric sibling professors in Vienna. She spends her time in school or helping Ellie in the kitchen, running errands for the. - Read "The Star of Kazan" by Eva Ibbotson available from Rakuten Kobo. Eva Ibbotson's hugely entertaining The Star of Kazan is a timeless classic for readers young and old. In , in a pilg. Preview — The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson. The Star of Kazan Quotes Showing of 3. "Pauline kept a scrapbook into which she pasted important articles that she had cut out of the newspapers. These were about the courageous deeds that had been done by people even if they only had one leg or couldn't see or had been dropped on their heads.
The Star of Kazan is my favourite book my Eva Ibbotson. The plot is fantastic, it's mysterious, but it makes sense, and you can understand it. I've found with many books that the more mysterious plots are hard to understand, and are really unrealistic, but Eva Ibbotson has found a balance between mystery and the reader's understanding which is really hard to do. About the Author. Eva Ibbotson, born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner (–), 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 (Macmillan, ), she won the Smarties Prize in category 9–11 years, garnered unusual commendation as runner-up for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and made the Carnegie. The Star of Kazan. by. Eva Ibbotson, Kevin Hawkes (Illustrator) · Rating details · 7, ratings · reviews. Annika has never had a birthday. Instead she celebrates her Found Day, the day a housemaid and a cook to three eccentric Viennese professors found her and took her home. There, Annika has made a happy life in the servants.
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