Farjeon, Eleanor – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Wed, 05 Oct 2022 08:27:18 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Farjeon, Eleanor – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Kings & Queens https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/kings-queens/ Thu, 01 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/kings-queens/ Kings and Queens by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon is a highly entertaining collection of poems about all forty-one English Kings and Queens since William I. Reissued in Puffin Poetry Kings and Queens is an authentic classic that has delighted young readers and adults alike. With wonderfully witty illustrations by Robin Jacques, history has never been so much fun!

Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon were born in the 1880s into a highly literary family. Eleanor published nearly 70 books, mostly for children. Together with Herbert, her younger brother, she also wrote a children’s panto, two operettas and a musical fairy story.

]]> Little Bookroom https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/little-bookroom/ Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/little-bookroom/ A girl sits in a dusty room, crammed to the rafters with books. Sunlight dances on the covers, between which are stories of magical worlds and faraway places, lands of princesses, kings, giants, and real children too. Eleanor Farjeon was that girl, who was so enchanted by her little bookroom that she recreated it by writing this wonderful collection of short stories.This charming book was the winner of the prestigious Carnegie Medal and is beautifully illustrated throughout by Edward Ardizzone, whose exquisite pictures immediately bring to mind the magical atmosphere of the stories

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