Talk:Eva Ibbotson

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Article Revision Proposal
I hereby propose that the article be revised and rewritten. If none answer my challenge ,I shall re-write the article myself. Does anyone object to my working on this article?

April809&#39;s Contribution ..... (talk) 14:31, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Feel free to improve it - it is not desperately bad, but written in rather naive style and lacks good sources - an important children's author and certainly will benefit from improvement. --mervyn (talk) 15:20, 21 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Watch over the next week or two.
 * I'll see what I can do.

Old Comment
I think Journey To The River Sea by Eva ibbotson is one of the best I ever read. - 68.147.80.153

Revision
Who changed my edit that turned the first paragraph to a NPOV? It was NOT nice, as I believe the revert was uncalled for. I found no reason to have the paragraph POV'd. I vote to revert it back to my edit.

April809User:April809 16:35, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Copyright Violation
For the person who started this article : Do not copy word for word from a website, as it is a violation of copyright.

I will revise the article when I have time.

Aprill809 18:21, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

German-language stories
I have added to section Published works three very short books listed in the German national catalog with 1967/68/71 publication dates (now listings #65-67 of 68), earlier than any other publications we list. (Those German catalogue listings are nearly inverse-chronological thruout, but #64 and #68 are the German-language editions of The Great Ghost Rescue and Which Witch?, both several years later than #65-67 --and slightly later than their English editions.)

These three are short works, about 50 pages (compare about 150 pages reported for listings #64, 68). If I understand correctly the German catalogue, these had been translated from English to German. The first two of three are listed in the U.S. Library of Congress catalog as German-language works with no suggestion that they were translations. Here is a reportedly 1976 edition of the third, at a German books site.

Reportedly the collection A Glove Shop in Vienna and Other Stories by Eva Ibbotson (1984) includes at least one of the three: "The Great Carp Ferdinand", a Christmas family story set in Vienna. According to that linked blog, [a] the collected stories had been written early in her career and [b] three of them are Christmas stories, But the other Christmas stories are not those whose German editions I have reported.

Supposing that blog is reliable, it doesn't mean all the stories discussed were published before 1967, or before 1971, or even published in English before 1984, only that they had been written "early". Some or all may have been rejected by English-language publishers, or published in German without submission in English. On the other hand they may have been published in EL anthologies or periodicals prior to translation and 1967/68/71 publicatioon as small GL books. --P64 (talk) 17:37, 19 June 2012 (UTC)


 * revised for clarity, hopefully --P64 (talk) 21:03, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Add to Lead and standard headers
Added her birth name to Lead. Also added standard headers (such as Marriage and family) for a bio article. She should be referred to by her birth name prior to her marriage and change of name. In discussing comparison between her and Rowling's book, list hers first, as it was published first.Parkwells (talk) 16:07, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Status report
Career. Refimprove section remains valid as our several references support specific bibliographic data only, unrelated to her career as a process. One of my hidden comments is (quote) "BFI covers the drama in abstraction from her career; at ISFDB and FantasticFiction the novel is merely the earliest listing within genre(?)". See also re our ignorance of her career.

Fantastic Fiction (Ext link, not a Reference) lists 1975 publication months for The Great Ghost Rescue, U.S. January and U.K. April. Supposing that is reliable I suppose it nevertheless appropriate to call the book British (in its article). I have named both publishers and both illustrators in the text --where we should hope to know her point of entry, perhaps her first children's editor.

Harry Potter. I have noticed and marked other dead links to Amanda Craig's website (blog and more). Now I see that it does include many live pages on children's books; if it's comprehensive then our references can be fixed. Now I see we have Amanda Craig, which shows that we could do a better job of identifying her here.

The section hatlink target would be Harry Potter influences and analogues but I doubt that that is appropriate to display. ... After revisiting See also documentation I know how to do it:

External links. I have improved the previous listings (link names). Two of the targets are now formal references (isfdb and jrank) and at least one more should be (author of the month). Macmillan may continue to update her page, essentially a photo of the author with a collection of cover images. "Latest book by this author" refers to Macmillan's latest reissue and they have done several since her death (and more than a dozen from 2009).

--P64 (talk) 21:03, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

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