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The Little Bookroom

Eleanor Farjeon

First published 1955
Publisher Oxford University Press
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Cover art Edward Ardizzone
Pages xii+302

Notes

  • Some editions sometimes catalogued with long title The Little Bookroom: Eleanor Farjeon's Short Stories for Children, Chosen by Herself.
  • The 4 longest selections constitute one-third by length. --Wikipedia as of 2017-01-17 (identifies the 4)

1st ed. OCLC: 20574029, with list of Contents (27) Price from listing Manchester Guardian 1955-11-09 p5 "Books Received" Data from Wikipedia: both biographies and book article with front cover image

LCCN: 56-28856 and OCLC: 25435271 give page-count 320 pages, no illustrator credit. LC catalog shows the correct information, as stated here, for the 1st US ed. (Oxford, 1956).

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Awards

Year Award Category Status
1955 Carnegie Medal for Writing Carnegie Medal Winner

Other Editions

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Little Bookroom Cover 1992 Puffin Paperback Collection Pauline Baynes 282
The Little Bookroom Cover 2004 Oxford University Press Trade Paperback Collection Ian Beck xvi+298
The Little Bookroom Cover 2012 New York Review of Books eBook Collection