Author: Eleanor FarjeonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781406373257
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Synopsis coming soon.......
Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep
Author: Eleanor FarjeonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781406373257
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Synopsis coming soon.......
Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep
Author: Eleanor FarjeonPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0763690554
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Skip for joy! The exuberant classic returns in a compact hardcover edition that makes a perfect gift. Little Elsie Piddock is a born skipper. When she is scarcely five, she can outskip anyone in her village. By the time she’s six, her name and fame have spread to all the villages in the county. And by the time she’s seven, the fairies have heard of her. When Master Skipper Andy-Spandy summons the sleeping little girl to Mount Caburn for a contest, the tireless Elsie outskips even the fairies and is rewarded with a gift of rare and lasting value. Can she use it later to save the fabled skipping grounds of Caburn? Or will a greedy lord build a factory where children have played for centuries?
Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep
Author: Eleanor FarjeonPublisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN: 9780763607906
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
SPEC: Gift of William A. Gosling. First U.S. edition, first
Martin Pippin in the Daisy-Field
Author: Eleanor FarjeonPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448158826
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
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. The collection includes one of Farjeon's most famous and charming stories, 'Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep. This classic, magical collection will be loved by adults and children alike - perfect for bedtime reading.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
Author: Eleanor FarjeonPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448171784
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Wandering minstrel, Martin Pippin, encounters a lovelorn ploughman who begs him to release his beloved by entertaining the six young women sworn to guard her. This Martin Pippin does - telling beautiful tales of heartbreak, betrayal and everlasting love. 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 . . . Before I had read five pages of Martin Pippin, I had forgotten who I was and where I lived. I was transported into a world of sunlight, of gay inconsequence, of emotional surprise, a world of poetry, delight and humour. And I lived and took my joy in that rare world, until all too soon my reading was done.' From J. D. Beresford's Foreword to the first American edition of 1922.
Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep
Author: Eleanor FarjeonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rope skipping
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep
Author: Eleanor FarjeonPublisher: Walker
ISBN: 9781406314052
Category : Rope skipping
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
Tells the story of Little Elsie Piddock who can skip like never so. The High Skip, the Slow Skip, the Long Skip, the Skip against Trouble ... Elsie Piddock learns them all. Soon she can even outskip the fairies on Mount Caburn and is rewarded with a gift of rare and lasting value - a magical skipping rope.
The True Story of Humpty Dumpty
Author: Sarah HayesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780744557022
Category : Children's poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Reading Together is a learn-to-read series of picture books for young children and parents to enjoy together. There are four levels, each consisting of six books, offering a variety of reading experiences: stories, poems, rhymes and songs, traditional tales and information books.
The Silver Curlew
Author: Eleanor FarjeonPublisher: Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN: 1774642883
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
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 king of Norwich, who insists that eighteen-year-old Doll Codling must spin a certain amount of flax for him, or he will cut off her head. Doll, terrified of dying, makes a deal with a spindle-imp, in order to save herself and her family. The only clincher is, that he returns to the castle when Doll's daughter is born and insists that he take the newborn child as payment for his work. Doll, and her younger sister Poll, try desperately to keep the baby...
The Little Bookroom
Author: Eleanor FarjeonPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590175484
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
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