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Title: Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep by Eleanor Farjeon, Charlotte Voake ISBN: 0-7636-0790-8 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: September, 2000 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Please don't miss this book - it'll be a favorite
Comment: Wasn't sure my son would go for this book, because the main character is a girl who loves to jump rope (not our usual fare), but I was enamored with it and gave it a go. I'm glad I did, because he loved it. The writing flows very nicely, and has it's own 'Old World charm' - "Elsie Piddock skips as never so." Lots of fun to read, and a great story about standing up for what is important to you sort of snuck in there...
Buy this book as a gift for anyone who has girls because they will surely love it!
Rating: 5
Summary: Once encountered, never forgotten!
Comment: Any child, and I am now fifty-nine years old, who can recite Andy Spandy's ropeskipping rhyme has me for a friend. This is one of those tales for children that sounds better being told aloud by a good reader. When I was growing up, both my parents loved to read aloud, and my sister and I heard many fine tales before the fireplace, listening to mother or father.
But the lilt of the language as the rope swings round is the unforgettable part:
ANDY SPANDY SUGARDY CANDY
FRENCH ALMOND ROCK!
BREAD AND BUTTER FOR YOUR SUPPER'S
ALL YOUR MOTHER'S GOT!
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't skip this gem
Comment: There may be no better book for reading aloud to pre-teens. Originally one of the stories in Farjeon's "Tales Told Under the Green Umbrella" -- long out of print -- Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep is easily as much fun for the adult reader as for the young listener, and in this case that is saying a great deal. It is actually two consecutive stories (ideal for consecutive nights), one a delightful fantasy of fairies and skipping rope -- just as appealing to boys as to girls, honest -- and the second an adventure, at once enthralling and emotionally satisfying, with an ending that will bring tears of delight to all who hear it.
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Title: The Little Bookroom: Eleanor Farjeon's Short Stories for Children Chosen by Herself (New York Review Children's Collection) by Eleanor Farjeon, Edward Ardizzone ISBN: 1590170482 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Little Long-Nose (Candlewick Treasures) by Wilhelm Hauff, Laura Stoddart, Laura Stoddard ISBN: 0763603279 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
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Title: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems ISBN: 078681988X Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Brundibar by Tony Kushner, Maurice Sendak, Michael di Capua ISBN: 0786809043 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 10) by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist ISBN: 0064410137 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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