The Little Bookroom - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Eleanor Farjeon, Edward Ardizzone, Rumer GoddenAudience:Ages 9-12Publish date:2020-12-01Pages:328
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Nyrb KidsISBN-13:9781681375045ISBN-10:1681375044UPC:9781681375045Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories, Classics, Books & LibrariesSize:7.60 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7Product ID:SCQGE0Z404
27 illustrated short stories full of heart and whimsy, by the Carnegie Medal-winning author--a perfect read-aloud collection for middle grade readers who love folklore and fairy tales. In The Little Bookroom, Eleanor Farjeon mischievously tilts our workaday world to reveal its wonders and follies. Her selection of her favorite stories describes powerful--and sometimes exceedingly silly--monarchs, and commoners who are every bit their match; musicians and dancers who live for aft rather than earthly reward; and a goldfish who wishes to "marry the Moon, surpass the Sun, and possess the World." Featuring an afterword by Rumer Godden
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Nyrb KidsISBN-13:9781681375045ISBN-10:1681375044UPC:9781681375045Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories, Classics, Books & LibrariesSize:7.60 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7Product ID:SCQGE0Z404
Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965) grew up in England in a house filled with books, and she and her brothers enjoyed reading stories to one another and writing their own. In America, Farjeon's best-known work may be the hymn "Morning Has Broken," later recorded by Cat Stevens, but in her native country she is beloved as the author of Elsie Piddock Skips in her Sleep, Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard, and, of course, The Little Bookroom. Farjeon was pleased when The Little Bookroom won the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award and the Carnegie Medal, but she turned down another honor--Dame of the British Empire--explaining that she "did not wish to become different from the milkman." At her death, the Children's Book Circle established the Eleanor Farjeon Award in her honor.
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