A Worm Called Rover

Day 13 – Favorite childhood book OR current favorite YA book (or both!)

I planned to talk here about Arthur Ransome or Enid Blyton or even my slightly insane addiction to vintage Grange Hill novels, but then I had another thought.

Eva Ibbotson now writes the most beautiful historical YA novels, about German cakes and war and lost aristocrats and all that sort of thing. Beautiful, beautiful books. A new one is always a pleasure, the kind of save for a treat and read while drinking hot...