The Crossing of Ingo

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name = The Crossing of Ingo


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author = Helen Dunmore
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
series = "Ingo" tetralogy
genre = Children's fantasy
publisher = HarperCollins Children's Books
pub_date = 5 May, 2008
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 320 pp
isbn = ISBN 978-0007270255
preceded_by = The Deep
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"The Crossing of Ingo" is a children's fantasy novel by Helen Dunmore, first published in 2008. It is the fourth and final volume in the "Ingo" tetralogy.

It was longlisted for the 2008 Booktrust Teenage Prize. [cite web |url=http://www.readplus.com.au/news_detail.php?id=170 |title= Booktrust Teenage longlist |accessdate=2008-09-17 |date=2008-09-02 |publisher="ReadPlus"]

Plot summary

Sapphire and Conor have been called to make the dangerous Crossing of Ingo, a journey to the bottom of the world, and it has been prophesied that if they complete it then Ingo and Air will start to heal. They have their Mer friends, Faro and Elvira, to help them, but their old enemy, Ervys, is determined to make sure they don't succeed.

Reception

The "Liverpool Echo" described the book as a "wonderful text", with "a dramatic and spellbinding climax". [cite web |url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/echo-columnists/2008/05/20/me-hungry-by-jeremy-tankard-10-99hb-candlewick-press-100252-20933689/ |title=Me Hungry, by Jeremy Tankard, £10.99hb (Candlewick Press) |accessdate=2008-09-17 |date=2008-05-20 |publisher="Liverpool Echo"] "The Book Bag" said that it was "just as beautiful as the first three books", adding that "Ingo comes to life in elegant, delicate strokes"; they gave it five stars, comparing it to Narnia, and named it a future classic. [cite web |url=http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php/The_Crossing_of_Ingo_by_Helen_Dunmore |title=The Crossing of Ingo by Helen Dunmore |accessdate=2008-09-17 |publisher="The Book Bag"] "Write Away" felt it was "full of adventure and action" and that the ending was "particularly well done and bitter sweet", adding that overall it is "an exciting story, well told". [cite web |url=http://www.writeaway.org.uk/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,3453/Itemid,/ |title=The Crossing of Ingo |accessdate=2008-09-17 |publisher="Write Away"] Amanda Craig of "The Times" made it a half-term reading selection—describing it as "a dramatic climax" to the series [cite web |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_reviews/article3990838.ece |title=Heroes for Half Term |accessdate=2008-09-17 |date=2008-05-23 |publisher="The Times"] —and, later, a summer reading selection, when she called it "the most action-packed and satisfying of the four stories". [cite web |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/children/article4224657.ece |title=A selection of rewarding reading for the long summer holidays |accessdate=2008-09-17 |date=2008-06-27 |publisher="The Times"]

References

External links

* [http://www.helendunmore.com/ Author's Official Website]