Journey to the River Sea
by Eva Ibbotson
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Author: Eva IbbotsonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Unabridged
Published: 2008-05-30
ISBN: 033039715X
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Pan Childrens
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- Winner Smarties Book Prize Gold Award
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Book Review: A little piece of childhood
Summary: 5 Stars
First off, let me say that I am a huge fan of Eva Ibbotson, and have been since I was about seven years old, so I might be a little biased. That aside, this book was one of the best young adult books I've read this year, and my favorite by her no doubt. This book is going to be a "classic". It's one of those books like A Little Princess and Matilda that really captures the essence of childhood. This book makes you remember what it felt like to live in a world of endless possibilities and wonders. And if you're still at that age, or maybe just stepping out of it like myself, it reminds you what being a kid is all about. I know that as I've gotten older, I've tended to fall deeper and deeper into that idea of "the real world" where you forgo that career you're really interested in for a desk job with more money. The world where you are so worried about bills and meetings and being what other people want you to be that you forget why life's worth living in the first place. That's what this book reminded me of. It reminded me of the passion and wonder and excitement for every day that made being a kid so great. And that makes life so great. And so, with all that over-sentimentality, all I'm trying to say is that this is a book everyone can enjoy, at whatever age. I'm not saying this book is perfect, or even that it's the most well written book of the year, but it is most definitely worth reading. And then maybe worth reading again.
Summary of Journey to the River Sea
It is 1910 and Maia, tragically orphaned at 13, has been sent from England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Amazon. She is accompanied by an eccentric and mysterious governess who has secret reasons of her own for making the journey. Both soon discover an exotic world bursting with new experiences in this highly colourful, joyous and award-winning adventure.Sent in 1910 to live with distant relatives who own a rubber plantation along the Amazon River, English orphan Maia is excited. She believes she is in for brightly colored macaws, enormous butterflies, and "curtains of sweetly scented orchids trailing from the trees." Her British classmates warn her of man-eating alligators and wild, murderous Indians. Unfortunately, no one cautions Maia about her nasty, xenophobic cousins, who douse the house in bug spray and forbid her from venturing beyond their coiffed compound. Maia, however, is resourceful enough to find herself smack in the middle of more excitement than she ever imagined, from a mysterious "Indian" with an inheritance, to an itinerant actor dreading his impending adolescence, to a remarkable journey down the Amazon in search of the legendary giant sloth.
Eva Ibbotson, author of Dial-A- Ghost, Island of the Aunts, and other positively delightful and droll fantasies, won a Gold Award for this book in the 2001 Nestlé Smarties Book Prizes. Likable heroines, loathsome villains, and splendid adventures?-along with Kevin Hawkes's appealing ink illustrations--make Ibbotson's novels a must for every bookshelf. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter
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