Eleanor Farjeon

• Aug-2024
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How much did Aunt Addie know?How much did she feel?Aunt Addie  better known to the world at large as Adelaide Granby, the fabulously successful author of 49 volumes of gushing, melodramatic  Victorian romance. Upon her death in 19...

• Nov-2021
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The Silver Curlew is one of Eleanor Farjeon's finest works, an intriguing re-telling of the classic story Rumpelstiltskin. Mother Codling lives with her children in a small, Norfolk windmill. One day, the Codlngs receive a surprise visit from the kin...

• Feb-2021
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• Jun-2018
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This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

• Jun-2014
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Little boy, little boy, what is the matter?Madam, the sea has been turned into batter!Eleanor Farjeon's delightful London nursery rhymes are known and loved all over the world, and told with characteristic humour and playfulness. Reimagine London wit...

• Dec-2013
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Anthony grew up in the loveliest place in the world - his father called it the Eye of the Earth. But to Anthony, the 'eye of the earth' was the old mill-pond near his home--a place of mystery and enchantment . Anthony's childhood was full of happy mo...

• Dec-2013
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Wandering minstrel, Martin Pippin, encounters six little girls on his travels - who beg him to tell them stories. This he does whilst they are making daisy chains, and so his wonderful tales of magicians, mermaids, pirates and pigs are here-recounted...

• Dec-2013
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For every day of the year Eleanor Farjeon provides a scrap of fun or fancy, poetry or nonsense, fact or fable. Here young readers can set out with Will Kemp on his nine-day dance from London to Norwich and read the lovely tale of the Seven Sleepers o...

• Sep-2013
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Every time he went out for his daily walk, Derry had to pass the corner where old Jim sat on his orange box. And every time he lingered there in the hope of a story. For Jim was a sailor who had grown too old for the sea, but who was never tired of h...

• Aug-2013
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This is the story of the twenty-six children of Zeal Monachorum who did not know their ABC, until one day Perkin the Pedlar came by. He told them a story and a verse for each letter of the alphabet, starting with Appledore and ending with their own Z...

• Jun-2013
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Tom Tiddler is going on a journey across London, with only a wise old owl and a really selfish and greedy goat for company. He is collecting and returning people's property so that they will, in turn, help him to rescue all the little girls in Englan...

• May-2013
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More than anything, Ella wants to go to the ball at the Royal Palace. But Ella is the slave of the household, waiting on every wish and whim of her horrible stepsisters. They call her Cinderella for the ashes that cling to her face, hands and hair. H...

• Mar-2012
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pubOne.info present you this new edition. I have been asked to introduce Miss Farjeon to the American public, and although I believe that introductions of this kind often do more harm than good, I have consented in this case because the instance is r...

• Dec-2011
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First published in 1932, Herbert and Eleanor Farjeon's Kings and Queens is considered a classic of children's literature. The charming poems, each one dedicated to a different King or Queen, tell the story of the forty-one English monarchs since Wil...

• Oct-2011
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Heroes and Heroines, first published in 1933, is a delightful collection of witty and lyrical poems recalling�the deeds of heroes and heroines from all round the world, including Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Robin Hood, Christopher Columbus, S...

• May-2010
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• May-2008
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"A classic tale of tyranny overcome. . . . Voake makes this neglected gem -- an unforgettable read-aloud -- look new." -- KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED REVIEW)

Elsie Piddock is a born skipper. By the time she's seven, the tireless girl can eve...

• Dec-2003
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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 ...

• Oct-1996
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original ...