Elsie Piddock Skips In Her Sleep by Farjeon Eleanor
First published in 1937, this is the classic story of Little Elsie Piddock who can skip like never so. The High Skip, Slow Skip, the Skip Double-Double, the Long Skip, the Strong Skip, the Skip Against Trouble...Elsie Piddock learns them all. Soon she can even outskip the fairies on Mount Caburn and is rewarded by their Skipping-Master, Andy-Spandy, with a gift of rare and lasting value - a magical skipping-rope - that, many years later, helps her thwart an unpleasant landowner threatening to deny access to the skipping-ground.
"The poetic, incisive prose is well-matched by the featherlight line and muted pallette of the picturesA book worth treasuring." TES Primary "By that most perfect of storytellers, Eleanor Farjeon. Charlotte Voake... has to be half fairy herself to produce such exquisitely delicate pictures." The Guardian
Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965) was one of the most important children's writers of the twentieth century. In 1956 she was awarded both the Carnegie Medal and the Hans Christian Andersen International Medal. Charlotte Voake visited Mount Caburn while preparing the illustrations for this book, and found it "an extraordinary place. The atmosphere is magical." A highly acclaimed artist, Charlotte Voake won the 1997 Smarties Book Prize Gold Award for Ginger and has been shortlisted four times for the Kurt Maschler Award.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780744582253 |
| ISBN 10 | 0744582253 |
| Title | Elsie Piddock Skips In Her Sleep |
| Author | Farjeon Eleanor |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Walker Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2001-09-03 |
| Number of pages | 48 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |