Island of the Aunts

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Summary: Quite Amusing
Review: I am 14 and am almost finished reading Island of the Aunts. While this is definitley not my favourite book, it is enjoyable to read. The story revolves around three aunts who kidnap two children, Minette and Fabio, to help with work on a magical island. The end of the book is more exciting than the beginning. ubt overall I recommend this book for girls and boys ages 9 - 13.

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Summary: Wildy Enchanting
Review: I am 14 I read Island of the Aunts and is really good.
It is about three elderly aunts who need help caring for their magical animals and they resort to kidnaping three young kids to help them with their work.Two of the kids are named Minette and Fabio and they are quite happy to get out of their unhappy normal lives.But the third child sreams and yells so they keep him in a locked room all day.Later on in the book all the animals as well as the aunts are in danger, for horrible people are trying to find their secret island, and Minette and Fabio have to save the aunts and the creatures they love.I really enjoyed this bookit was funny and wildly inventive and over all great.
I recommend this book to ages 14-16.
It is a book that you just couldn't put down and you have to understand it to enjoy it.I am going to reaad all of Eva Ibbotson's books.She is a wondeful author.

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Summary: Island of the Aunts
Review: I don't really like the book because it doesn't really have much action. And it is kinda boring and dull and uninteresting. It isn't my taste.

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Summary: realistic whimsy or whimsical reality
Review: I just borrowed this book from a young relative and was unable to put it down for the rest of the day. It is well written and enjoyable. The most striking thing about the book is that despite the fantasy of it, it is set in a real world with real people. The world the two children come from is a very real one with all the inherent problems, of divorce, alcoholism, racism, classism etc. Yet even as they are catapulted into a world of fantasy, they still have to deal with the real world, where environmental damage is slowly destroying the sea and even mermaids aren't safe from gum addictions and sexual harassment. The idea that there is hope at the end of this, as symbolized by the Kraken, is what makes the book so special. Having read some of the earlier reviews I was a bit shocked at the two-facedness of some of the reviewers. On the one hand they want their children to live in a nice safe fantasyland and be blind to social evils and realities, while on the other hand they themselves are completely unable to see the metaphors that inhabit the fantasyland of the author. The kraken is not presented here as an idol, but as a symbol of hope. I applaud those school districts that have looked beyond the narrow-mindedness and short-sightedness of some of their neighbors to put this exellent book on their reading lists.

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Summary: Island of the Aunts
Review: I liked this booke because its fuuny

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Summary: Island of the Aunts
Review: I love this book because it has fantasy in the book and I really liked the animals in the book.I think that anyone could injoy this book really well.

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Summary: Island of the aunts
Review: I think that Island of the Aunts was a great book! It is an action packed fantasy story. When you read this book it brings fantasy creatures to life. Eva Ibbotson in general is a great author, so you should also try reading her othe books. I'm telling you that you should read Island of the Aunts!

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Summary: food
Review: I thought island of the aunts was so so. I liked when they were kidnaping the children and the beggening was kind of bad.

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Summary: I'm half and half (: !!
Review: I'm half and half because I like the humor in this book and there's absoulutly not that much ACTION!!

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Summary: Review of Island of the Aunts
Review: Ibbotson, Eva. Island of the Aunts 2000. 281p. illus. Dutton Children's Books. $15.99. ISBN-0-525-46484-0 Gr.3-5 In Eva Ibbotson's third novel, Island of the Aunts, three elderly ladies, Aunt Etta, Aunt Myrtle, and Aunt Coral are living on a remote tropical island with only two other humans, but a menagerie of beasts. The Aunts, as they call themselves, are the caretakers of the inhabitants of the island, which range from a two-year-old merman to a 500 ft. "wingless dragon" that talks. They find themselves growing old and realize that someday they will die, so they decide to kidnap helpers. The results are Minette, Fabio, and Lambert. Minette and Fabio are a dream come true for the Aunts but Lambert is a nightmare. Looking upon animals in disgust he is locked in his room and of no use, but don't forget him! After a day of introduction the children get to work de-oiling mermaids and (Ahem) mermen and feeding everyone else. It looks as if things can only go uphill . . . This incredible novel is masterfully written and takes on the some magical build as The Secret of Platform 13 and Which Witch. So Harry Potter fans come this way Eva Ibbotson is the author for you!