Eva Ibbotson, renown British children’s author died recently. A lengthy obituary was published in the Telegraph. After reading it, I became curious about her books and sought them out at the library. What a delightful discovery! I got four of her chapter books: Journey to the River Sea (Macmillan, 2001,) The Beasts of Clawstone Castle (Macmillan, 2005,) Which Witch (Dutton, 1995) and Island of the Aunts (Dutton, 1999.) As per my usual custom, I read the first paragraph of each book aloud to my daughter for her to decide which one we would pursue for our bedtime reading. They all started off so brilliantly, it really was hard to choose but we settled on Which Witch which is, by the way, rather appropriate for Halloween today! Here’s the opening: As soon as he was born, Mr. and Mrs. Canker knew their baby was not like other people’s children. Curious?! Do get out the book and by reading it, commemorate the memory of this wonderful children’s author.