On 2009-12-26 Y. Urakami, Japan wrote: I am a Japanese woman and since the auther is quite popular here thanks to the great translation of Momoko Ishii, I could read most of her work. Every book has mesmerising charms of poem and fantasy. I bought this book because I wanted to read in original English text. This book is an anthology of varities of short stories from a couple of pages long to dozens.
My all time favorite is ´And I Dance Mine Own Child´ which is about a 10 year old girl Griselda who lives with her 110 year old Great-Grandmother in a cottage in the poor lane. She is so diligent hardworking child. The old lady is becoming like a child and Griselda treats her dearly like her own child. Their bed time ritual makes me smile, and Griselda´s noble diligence and love for the Gramma makes my eyes teary everytime I read it. Although there arn´t any fairies or magic nor dragons in it, this is a pure fairy tale.
Other stories like romantic ´The Clumber Pup´, ´The Little Dressmaker´, ´West Woods´ are comparably long and are also my favorite. Short ones like ´The Seventh Princess´ which implies an astonishingly modern idea of woman´s independence, ´The Grass Peacock´ with another noble diligent girl, comic fable ´The Tims´ are all attructive in different tones.
Great for story telling performance.. And summed up by saying Gems of Stories. Currently The Little Bookroom has an overall rating of 10 over 10.
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Edward Ardizzone claimed In The Little Bookroom, originally published in 1955 and winner of the first Hans Christian Andersen Award and the Carnegie Medal, Eleanor Farjeon mischievously tilts the workaday world to reveal its wonders and follies. Peopling her selection of her favorite stories, 27 in all, are powerful — and sometimes exceedingly silly — monarchs, and commoners who are every bit their match; musicians and dancers who live for art rather than earthly reward; six princesses who are too proud to taste life; and a goldfish who wishes to ´marry the Moon, surpass the Sun, and possess the World.´
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