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The Little Bookroom (New York Review Children's Collection)

by Eleanor Farjeon

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In The Little Bookroom, originally published in 1955 and winner of the first Hans Christian Andersen Award and the Carnegie Medal, Eleanor Farjeon mischievously tilts the workaday world to reveal its wonders and follies. Peopling her selection of her favorite stories, 27 in all, are powerful ? and sometimes exceedingly silly ? monarchs, and commoners who are every bit their match; musicians and dancers who live for art rather than earthly reward; six princesses who are too proud to taste life; and a goldfish who wishes to ?marry the Moon, surpass the Sun, and possess the World.?

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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."
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JMCthePoetress, September 17, 2006 (view all comments by JMCthePoetress)
Thanks to the recent reprint of ?The Little Bookroom?, by Eleanor Farjeon, the child in all of us can be found, once again!
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781590170489
Afterword:
Ardizzone, Edward
Author:
Godden, Rumer
Illustrator:
Ardizzone, Edward
Author:
Farjeon, Eleanor
Afterword:
Godden, Rumer
Publisher:
New York Review of Books
Location:
New York
Subject:
Short stories
Subject:
Children's 4-8 - Literature / Classics
Subject:
Fairy Tales & Folklore - Collections by Author
Subject:
Children's stories, English
Subject:
Readers - Intermediate
Subject:
JUVENILE FICTION / Readers / Intermediate
Subject:
Children s All Ages - Literature
Series:
New York Review Children's Collection
Series Volume:
108-210
Publication Date:
April 2003
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
- Up
Language:
English
Illustrations:
, Yes
Pages:
314
Dimensions:
8.92x5.72x1.06 in. 1.24 lbs.
Age Level:
04-08
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