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  • Published: 7 July 2016
  • ISBN: 9780141375526
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 124

The Old Nurse's Stocking-Basket




A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime

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 blamed for sometimes making large holes on purpose, so that they'd have a long story to match!
This is a charming collection of bedtime fairytale stories, with evocative line drawings by Edward Ardizzone.

  • Published: 7 July 2016
  • ISBN: 9780141375526
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 124

About the author

Eleanor Farjeon

Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965) was a British author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire. She lived much of her life among the literary and theatrical circles of London, and her friends included D. H. Lawrence, Walter de la Mare and Robert Frost. She won many literary awards, and the prestigious Eleanor Farjeon Award for children's literature is presented annually in her memory by the Children's Book Circle.

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