She won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for Journey to the River Sea, and has been a runner up for many of major awards for British children's literature. Ibbotson has written numerous books including The Secret of Platform 13, Journey to the River Sea, Which Witch?, Island of the Aunts, and Dial-a-Ghost. Ten years later, she published her first novel, The Great Ghost Rescue. Ibottson began writing with the television drama Linda Came Today, in 1965. Ibbotson was widowed with three sons and a daughter. Instead, she married and raised a family, returning to school to become a teacher in the 1960's. Ibbotson had intended to be a physiologist, but was put off by the amount of animal testing that she would have to do. She attended Bedford College, graduating in 1945 Cambridge University from 1946-47 and the University of Durham, from which she graduated with a diploma in education in 1965.
When Hitler came into power, Ibbotson's family moved to England. Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1925. Eva Ibbotson (born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner, 1925, Vienna, Austria) was a British novelist specializing in romance and children's fantasy.
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