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The Little Bookroom : ウィキペディア英語版 | The Little Bookroom
''The Little Bookroom'' is a collection of twenty-seven stories for children by Eleanor Farjeon, published by Oxford University Press in 1955 with illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. They were selected by the author to represent the best of her work over a thirty-year period from the 1910s or 1920s.〔 Most were in the fairy tale style. Next year Farjeon won the inaugural Hans Christian Andersen International Medal, recognising her career contribution to children's literature as a writer.〔 She also won the annual Carnegie Medal, recognising ''The Little Bookroom'' as the year's best children's book by a British subject.〔 Oxford published a U.S. edition in 1956 with a long title, as catalogued by the national library: ''The Little Bookroom: Eleanor Farjeon's short stories for children, chosen by herself''.〔 == The title ==
One room in the house of her childhood was called "the little bookroom", Farjeon explains in the Author's Note. Although there were many books all over the house, this dusty room was like an untended garden, full to the ceiling of stray, left-over books, opening "magic casements" on to other times and places for the young Eleanor, filling her mind with a silver-cobwebby mixture of fact, fancy and romance which influenced all her later writing. "Seven maids with seven brooms, sweeping for half-a-hundred years, have never managed to clear my mind of its dust of vanished temples and flowers and kings, the curls of ladies, the sighing of poets, the laughter of lads and girls."〔Farjeon, "Author's Note", ''The Little Bookroom''.〕
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