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The Abominables

Suitable for 9 – 10 years

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A classic from beloved author Eva Ibbotson – now with an updated cover from celebrated illustrator, Jamie Littler.
How do you smuggle a family of yetis from Tibet to England?
When Agatha Farlingham is kidnapped by a yeti on a mountain in Tibet, she soon discovers that the hairy monster is clever and noble.
His children are in danger from the modern world and he needs her help. She sends them on a top-secret journey to England and the safety of her ancestral home.
But first she must teach them some manners. . .


  • A rollicking adventure from the extraordinary imagination of one of Britain’s most beloved storytellers.

  • This early Iva Ibbottson novel, never submitted for publication, contains all the trademark qualities that made Eva’s subsequent books so successful; comedy, loveable and eccentric characters, perfectly-crafted plotting, and inspiring themes of tolerance, kindness to animals, and the defeat of cruelty.

REVIEWS
“Ibbotson is one of the greatest children’s writers of our time” The Times
“A classic” The Daily Mail
“A hugely enjoyable and witty rollick” Mal Peet, Guardian

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Catalogue number

2539 in Rewards Catalogue 2026/27, 2539 in Rewards Catalogue 2025/26 and 2027 in EU Reading Spine 2026

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780702306792

Publisher

Scholastic

Date published

January 7th, 2021

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  • 256 pages

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New

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Author/Illustrator

Eva Ibbotson

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Eva Ibbotson is the award-winning author of many books for children and adults. She has a daughter and three sons, who showed her that children like to read about ghosts, wizards, and witches “because they are just like people but madder and more interesting.”

She was born in Vienna, in Austria, but moved to England with her family when the Nazis came to power. After training to be a physiologist which she didn’t enjoy because she didn’t like doing experiments on animals, Eva got married and had four very nice children.

Her first children’s book, The Great Ghost Rescue was published in 1975, and she is best known for titles like Journey to the River Sea and The Dragonfly Pool. Eva died in 2010, aged 85.

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