Eva Ibbotson

A British novelist who has achieved huge amounts of attention throughout the course of her writing career, the author Eva Ibbotson has been creating her unique brand of children's fiction for quite some time now, garnering interest for her work that appeals to both the young as well as the old. Winning awards she is not without critical acclaim either, with a large amount of praise being lavished on her many novels and stories. Not only that, but she has also managed to garner renewed interest in recent years, with her work being relabeled for the young adult market, thus gaining her a whole new audience.

The best place to start is the Platform 13 series, the earliest of Eva Ibbotson's multi-book series: it opens with The Secret of Platform 13 (1994) and runs to 2 books across 1994–2019, ending with Beyond Platform 13 (2019).

Eva Ibbotson has 28 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1975 and 2019. 2 of them belong to 1 named series — the largest being the Platform 13 series with 2 books — and 26 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Eva Ibbotson's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Platform 13 (1994–2019, 2 books).

This guide splits Eva Ibbotson's 28 books into 1 named series and 26 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Platform 13 (2 books, 1994–2019).