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Carbonel
''Carbonel'' is a children's book series by Barbara Sleigh, first published by Puffin Books from 1955 to 1978. Also published in the US by Bobbs-Merrill from 1955. It has three novels, first '' Carbonel: the King of the Cats'' and two sequels, ''The Kingdom of Carbonel'' (Puffin, 1961) and ''Carbonel and Calidor: Being the Further Adventures of a Royal Cat'' (Kestrel Books, 1978), and was based on the old British folk tale "The King of the Cats". The first edition of ''Carbonel'' was illustrated by V. H. Drummond, that of ''Kingdom'' by D. M. Leonard, and that of ''Carbonel and Calidor'' by Charles Front. ''Carbonel'' was named a Book of the Month by ''Young Elizabethan'' magazine, as a "most sensible, it-could-easily-have-happened fairy story". Plot The plot concerns a girl named Rosemary who buys a broom and a cat from an untidy woman in the marketplace. When the cat starts talking to her she learns that she has encountered a witch, selling up to start a new career. Moreover the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Sleigh
Barbara Grace de Riemer Sleigh (1906–1982) was an English children's writer and broadcaster. She is remembered most for her Carbonel series about a king of cats. Family and career Barbara Sleigh was born on 9 January 1906 in Birmingham, the daughter of an artist, Bernard Sleigh, and his wife Stella, née Phillp, who had married in 1901. Both parents came from a Methodist background, but she was brought up an Anglican. The family moved to Chesham for a time, then back to Birmingham. Their marriage broke up in about 1914. Her older brother, Brocas Linwood Sleigh (1902–1965), would also become a writer. Having attended art college and teachers' training college, Sleigh taught in various schools before joining the teacher training department at Goldsmiths College in London in 1929. She went to work for the BBC programme ''Children's Hour'' in 1932. There, in 1935, she married a colleague, David Davis (1908–1996) at Dunchurch, Warwickshire, but BBC house rules at the time would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The King Of The Cats
The King of the Cats (or The King o' the Cats) is a folk tale from the British Isles. The earliest known example is found in '' Beware the Cat'', written by William Baldwin in 1553, though it is related to the first century story of " The Death of Pan". Other notable versions include one in a letter written by Thomas Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton, first published in 1782, M. G. Lewis told the story to Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816, and a version was adapted by Joseph Jacobs from several sources, including one collected by Charlotte S. Burne. Walter Scott reported that it was a well known nursery tale in the Scottish Highlands in the eighteenth century. It can be categorised as a "death of an elf (or cat)" tale: Aarne–Thompson–Uther type 113A, or Christiansen migratory legend type 6070B.D. L. Ashliman,Death of an Underground Person: migratory legends of type 6070B Summary A man travelling alone sees a cat (or hears a voice), who speaks to him, saying to tell someone (often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puffin Books
Puffin Books is a longstanding children's imprint of the British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s, it has been among the largest publishers of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world. The imprint now belongs to Penguin Random House, a subsidiary of the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. History Four years after Penguin Books had been founded by Allen Lane, the idea for Puffin Books was hatched in 1939, when Noel Carrington, at the time an editor for '' Country Life'' books, met him and proposed a series of children's non-fiction picture books, inspired by the brightly coloured lithographed books mass-produced at the time for Soviet children. Lane saw the potential, and the first of the picture book series were published the following year. The name "Puffin" was a natural companion to the existing "Penguin" and "Pelican" books. Many continued to be reprinted right into the 1970s. A fiction list soon followed, when Puffin secured the paper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Front
Charles Front is a British illustrator, best known for designing the lettering on the 1965 Beatles album ''Rubber Soul''. He has illustrated several books, including ''A Child's Bible'', ''Never Say Macbeth'', ''The Great White Whale'', ''The Little Dressmaker'' and ''Carbonel and Calidor''. He worked on the BBC children's TV series '' Jackanory''. Front taught art and illustration at the Barking College Of Technology in the 1970s, and one of his students was special effects artist and animator Alan Friswell who is currently the official restorer for the Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation. Friswell credits Front as being an inspirational teacher and influence on his work. He was the art editor of ''MANNA'', the magazine of the Reform Judaism movement. Sheila and Charles Front created children's books together. They are the parents of actress Rebecca Front. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Snowball (children's Novel)
''The Snowball'' (first published 1969) is a domestic fantasy novel for children by the English writer Barbara Sleigh Barbara Grace de Riemer Sleigh (1906–1982) was an English children's writer and broadcaster. She is remembered most for her Carbonel series about a king of cats. Family and career Barbara Sleigh was born on 9 January 1906 in Birmingham, the d ... (1906–1982), who is best known for her Carbonel series. The two main human characters are Tom Tickle, aged eight, and his sister Tilda, aged six. The story The story is set in a small house on the edge of a small English country town. The children are on a loose rein, as their mother is soon called away to nurse some relations of theirs through a bout of measles, leaving them with their preoccupied father, a schoolmaster who is busy writing a book (p. 10). Snow starts to fall almost immediately after Mrs Tickle leaves. The children spend the day making a snowman – Tom's work – and a snow-woman – Tilda's wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobbs-Merrill Company
The Bobbs-Merrill Company was a book publisher located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Company history The company began in 1850 October 3 when Samuel Merrill bought an Indianapolis bookstore and entered the publishing business. After his death in 1855, his son, Samuel Merrill, Jr. continued the business. Soon after the American Civil War (1861-1865) the business became Merrill, Meigs, and Company, and in 1883 the name changed again to the Bowen-Merrill Company. In 1903 the name became the Bobbs-Merrill Company, after long-time director, William Conrad Bobbs. From 1899 through 1909, the company published 16 novels whose sales placed each of them among the nation's top ten best-selling books of the year for one or more years. The company was plaintiff in ''Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus'', 210 U.S. 339 (1908), a case regarded as the origin of copyright's first-sale doctrine. Bobbs-Merrill was known for publishing such authors as Keith Ayling, Erving Goffman, Richard Halliburton, Davi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Isles
The British Isles are a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles, and over six thousand smaller islands."British Isles", ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. They have a total area of and a combined population of almost 72 million, and include two sovereign states, the Republic of Ireland (which covers roughly five-sixths of Ireland), and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Channel Islands, off the north coast of France, are normally taken to be part of the British Isles, even though they do not form part of the archipelago. The oldest rocks are 2.7 billion years old and are found in Ireland, Wales and the northwest of Scotland. During the Silurian period, the north-western regions collided with the south-east, which had been part of a separate continental landmass. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folklore
Folklore is shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group. This includes oral traditions such as tales, legends, proverbs and jokes. They include material culture, ranging from traditional building styles common to the group. Folklore also includes customary lore, taking actions for folk beliefs, the forms and rituals of celebrations such as Christmas and weddings, folk dances and initiation rites. Each one of these, either singly or in combination, is considered a folklore artifact or traditional cultural expression. Just as essential as the form, folklore also encompasses the transmission of these artifacts from one region to another or from one generation to the next. Folklore is not something one can typically gain in a formal school curriculum or study in the fine arts. Instead, these traditions are passed along informally from one individual to another either through verbal instruction or demonstr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The King Of The Cats
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Nesbit
Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English writer and poet, who published her children's literature, books for children as E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 such books. She was also a political activist and co-founder of the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later affiliated to the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. Biography Nesbit was born in 1858 at 38 Lower Kennington Lane, Kennington, Surrey (now classified as Inner London), the daughter of an agricultural chemist, John Collis Nesbit, who died in March 1862, before her fourth birthday. Her mother was Sarah Green (née Alderton). The ill health of Edith's sister Mary meant that the family travelled for some years, living variously in Brighton, Buckinghamshire, France (Dieppe, Rouen, Paris, Tours, Poitiers, Angoulême, Bordeaux, Arcachon, Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Pau, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, and Dinan in Brittany), Spain and Germany. Mary was engaged in 187 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five Children And It
''Five Children and It'' is a children's novel by English author E. Nesbit. It was originally published in 1902 in the '' Strand Magazine'' under the general title ''The Psammead, or the Gifts'', with a segment appearing each month from April to December. The stories were then expanded into a novel which was published the same year. It is the first volume of a trilogy that includes ''The Phoenix and the Carpet'' (1904) and ''The Story of the Amulet'' (1906). The book has never been out of print since its initial publication. Plot summary Like Nesbit's ''The Railway Children'', the story begins when a group of children move from London to the countryside of Kent. The five children – Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, known as the Lamb – are playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasionally malevolent Psammead, a sand- fairy with the ability to grant wishes. The Psammead persuades the children to take one wish each ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No One Must Know
''No One Must Know'' is a 1962 children's novel by the English writer Barbara Sleigh. The story concerns a small group of children living in English town, sandwiched between a railway and a warehouse, in a row of rented, white-painted terraced houses, where the landlord will allow no pets.''No One Must Know'' by Barbara Sleigh, illustrated by Jillian Willett (London: Collins, 1962), 192 pp. Story line The story begins with the arrival of new tenants at Number Six, an end-house in Cumberland Place, which is a poky town-centre street sandwiched between a railway and a warehouse. The incoming family consists of a little girl, Jenny Hawthorn, and her father (she has lost her mother in a car crash), and a cat named Thomas (p. 14). The girl's face is described as "sprinkled with freckles – as freely as an apple charlotte is with brown sugar." The pet problem is one that she manages to share immediately with other children in the street: "'Is it true? ... No pets?'" Barty nodded. 'I s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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