The Top Ten Reasons I Would Bring Along an Eva Ibbotson Book if I'm Ever Stranded on a Desert Island

While Eva Ibbotson is known as a successful children's book author (J.K. Rowling is thought to have borrowed heavily from her, especially when it came to the idea for Platform 9 3/4m as Eva had previously released a novel called The Secret of Platform 13.), she has also written some YA titles, which have been slowly rereleased over the past few years.* And they are - I swear - the best books ever. Here's why:

1. The prose.

Read this paragraph from The Morning Gift:

"A vulture hung like a...