In The Little Bookroom, Eleanor Farjeon mischievously tilts our workaday world to reveal its wonders and follies.

By the time she died in 1965, she had published over 80 books and won many prizes. This is a selection of her poetry for children.

... Eleanor Farjeon from the first and did all she could to encourage her . The two became close friends . A personal memory of Eleanor Farjeon in 1930 has been preserved for us by Helen Dean Fish . " In that year she came to England and ...

Contains the complete text of four volumes - Sing for your supper, Over the garden wall, Joan's door, Come Christmas, in addition to other poems. Grades 4-7.

These seafaring tales begin on a street corner where Jim, a retired sailor, spends his days, passing the time telling a curious boy named Derry about life aboard his ship, the Rockinghorse.

But will the imprisoned Gillian ever be freed? This delightful collection will be loved by adults and children alike - a perfect introduction to sophisticated fairy tales. 'She is one of the few who can conceive and tell a fairytale . . .

The Silver Curlew is one of Eleanor Farjeon's finest works, an intriguing re-telling of the classic story Rumpelstiltskin.