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The Old Nurse´s Stocking-Basket
Eleanor Farjeon
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Description for The Old Nurse´s Stocking-Basket
Paperback. Every night when the children were tucked up in bed, the Old Nurse would pull out a pair of stockings from the mending-basket and while she threaded her needle she would look in her memory for a story that fitted the size of the hole. The children always stopped their bickering at once, for none of them wanted to miss her extraordinary stories.. Series: A Puffin Book. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 5AF; YFA. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 131 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 110.
Every night when the children were tucked up in bed, the Old Nurse would pull out a pair of stockings from the mending-basket and while she threaded her needle she would look in her memory for a story that fitted the size of the hole. The children always stopped their bickering at once, for none of them wanted to miss her extraordinary stories of princes and princesses, Greek gods, sea captains and other wonderful characters she had come across in her hundreds of years as a children's nurse. All the tales were so entrancing that the boys could hardly be ... Read more
Every night when the children were tucked up in bed, the Old Nurse would pull out a pair of stockings from the mending-basket and while she threaded her needle she would look in her memory for a story that fitted the size of the hole. The children always stopped their bickering at once, for none of them wanted to miss her extraordinary stories of princes and princesses, Greek gods, sea captains and other wonderful characters she had come across in her hundreds of years as a children's nurse. All the tales were so entrancing that the boys could hardly be ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
A Puffin Book
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141368689
SKU
V9780141368689
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-21
About Eleanor Farjeon
Eleanor and her brother Herbert Farjeon were born in the 1880s into a highly literary family. Eleanor published nearly 70 books, most of them were for children. She won many literary awards and the Eleanor Farjeon Award for children's literature is presented annually in her memory by the Children's Book Circle.
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