Jim at the Corner by Farjeon, Eleanor

Jim at the Corner (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781681371641)

Vendor: Eleanor Farjeon
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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Jim at the Corner by Farjeon, Eleanor

Jim at the Corner

$15.95
Jim at the Corner by Farjeon, Eleanor

Jim at the Corner

$15.95
Format: Hardcover
Description
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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. In the tradition of Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses and Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, Farjeon's tales of talking sea serpents and stew-eating chimpanzees bring the far near and turn ordinary weather into an astronomical adventure. With pen-and-ink illustrations by the maritime master artist Edward Ardizzone, Jim at the Corner is an old-fashioned adventure for the eyes and the ears.

Author: Eleanor Farjeon
ISBN-10: 1681371642
ISBN-13: 9781681371641
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 11/14/2017
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 07/01/2017
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2017 pg. 137
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2018 - Superior,Well Above Average
By Eleanor Farjeon
By Eleanor Farjeon
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Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965) grew up in England in a house filled with books, and she and her brothers enjoyed reading stories to one another and writing their own. In America, Farjeon's best-known work may be the hymn Morning Has Broken," later recorded by Cat Stevens, but in her native country she is beloved as the author of Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep and Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard. Farjeon was pleased when her story collection, The Little Bookroom won the prestigious Carnegie Medal, but she turned down another honor--Dame of the British Empire--explaining that she "did not wish to become different from the milkman." At her death, the Children's Book Circle established the Eleanor Farjeon Award in her honor.

Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979) was born in French Indochina (now Vietnam) and moved to England when he was five years old. In addition to his illustrations for works by Eleanor Farjeon, Dylan Thomas, and Robert Louis Stevenson, Ardizzone wrote and illustrated his own books, including the celebrated Little Tim series, which was inspired in part by his dreams of escape from boarding school.

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