'Children,' said the Old Nurse, 'stop quarrelling, or you know what,' and the children always stopped quarrelling at once, for none of them wanted to miss her captivating bedtime tales about the little princes and princesses, sea captains' and peasants' sons and daughters she had known in her hundreds and hundreds of years as a children's nurse...' It is a beautiful new illustrated edition of this classic bed-time story, by the much-loved Eleanor Farjeon.
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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 childre
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