Eva Ibbotson
Paperback | Pages: 231 pages Rating: 3.94 | 12696 Users | 793 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Secret of Platform 13 |
| Author | : | Eva Ibbotson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 231 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 2001 by Puffin Books (first published January 1st 1994) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Childrens. Middle Grade. Fiction. Young Adult |
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A forgotten door on an abandoned railway platform is the entrance to a magical kingdom--an island where humans live happily with feys, mermaids, ogres, and other wonderful creatures. Carefully hidden from the world, the Island is only accessible when the door opens for nine days every nine years. A lot can go wrong in nine days. When the beastly Mrs. Trottle kidnaps the prince of the Island, it's up to a strange band of rescuers to save him. But can an ogre, a hag, a wizard, and a fey really troop around London unnoticed?Point Books Supposing The Secret of Platform 13
| Original Title: | The Secret of Platform 13 |
| ISBN: | 0141311924 (ISBN13: 9780141311920) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Ben, Odge, Mrs. Trottle, Raymond Trottle |
| Setting: | The Island |
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Ratings: 3.94 From 12696 Users | 793 ReviewsJudgment Regarding Books The Secret of Platform 13
A quest to find a missing prince. A portal that opens for a few days every nine years. A rescue mission by a hand-picked team. Obstacles to be overcome -- or else disaster follows. Eva Ibbotson writes a witty narrative that combines a comedy of errors with incipient tragedy, likeable protagonists with a dastardly antagonist, familiar landmarks with an insular fairyland straight out of legend.Forget cranky critics who archly suggest J K Rowling ripped off ideas from this fantasy for her Boy WhoJk Rowling is a thief and thats the tea
Oh, oh, oh, my love for Eva Ibbotson utterly continues. The Secret of Platform 13 is furiously magical and madly inventive. It's the story of a hidden island, wrapped away from the 'everyday' by magic and mists (mists made, fyi, by the *most* amazing creation ever - mistmakers, seal-like creatures who produce mist every time they hear beautiful music). The island is accessible through a secret door on Platform 13, Kings Cross which opens briefly every nine years. The island is desperately
A nice little book that i have read together with my 10 year old son, he did not like it at all.... he was struck by the fact that you can steal children and grow them up as if they were your own..( nothing managed to change his mind despite having explained that it was only a story...) Nothing to do, he was impressed and nothing else in the plot softened him a bit in his vision.I liked it, but nothing so special, the characters are little developed and too much meat on the fire. Just to
After a tough academic year, I wanted to start off my summer reading with something light and sweet, so I picked this book as my choice because, when, I was researching for my Harry Potter course, this book was mentioned in relation to the seperation of worlds and the protagonist not knowing how famous he was in the other, magical world. When the baby Prince from the hidden Island is kidnapped (because his nurses are dying for some fish and chips!), he cannot be brought back immediately because
This book has magic flowing throughout every word- I can't stress enough how much I love it. I still have the old copy from when I was very small, with my name shakily written on the inside cover. When we were asked at school what we thought heaven would be like, I simply read out Ibbotson's description of 'the island', an island with curving beaches, mermaids, hags and the all-important mistmakers. It manages to include everything a child would need to know about being good and kind, about how
Years ago I got the German audiobook for my birthday or for Christmas. And I remember listening to it almost every day. Then - a while ago - I found the CD in one of my old CD boxes and listened to it again: And I still love the story so much.So I decided to give the book to my cousin for his 11th birthday. I think he'll like it, too, because he read the whole Harry Potter series. So that's the point: You can look at the story line for itself and it's great. Yet you can try to find all the
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