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    Eleanor Farjeon (13 February 1881 – 5 June 1965) was an English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire. Several...
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    Christian hymn first published in 1931. It has words by English author Eleanor Farjeon and was inspired by the village of Alfriston in East Sussex, then set...
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  • journalist Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965), English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire Harry Farjeon (1878–1948)...
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  • The Eleanor Farjeon Award is made for distinguished service to the world of British children's books and is given to someone whose commitment and contribution...
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    poet Eleanor Farjeon and allowed her hymn Morning Has Broken to be recorded by the pop singer Cat Stevens. It became an international hit. Farjeon was...
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  • Hampstead in London for the rest of his life. His younger sister, Eleanor Farjeon (b. 1881), with whom he shared a rich imaginary life, wrote children's...
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    with Eleanor Farjeon, especially on The Little Bookroom (Oxford, 1955 collection). Ardizzone illustrated some novels by the American author Eleanor Estes...
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    economist and diplomat Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965), British writer Eleanor Friedberger (born 1976), American musician Eleanor Glanville (1654–1709), English...
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    June 1877. He was the father of J. Jefferson Farjeon, Eleanor Farjeon, Herbert Farjeon, and Harry Farjeon. Shadows on the Snow: A Christmas Story (1865)...
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  • the creator of Tots TV and Rosie and Jim. She was a recipient of the Eleanor Farjeon Award. She was born in Spennymoor, County Durham, England, and grew...
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  • Little Bookroom is a collection of twenty-seven stories for children by Eleanor Farjeon, published by Oxford University Press in 1955 with illustrations by...
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    Children's Author of the Year Award. 2005, Children's Book Circle's Eleanor Farjeon Award. 2013, The Kitschies Black Tentacle for "outstanding achievement...
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  • awarded the Prince Philip Designers Prize in 2011, and received the Eleanor Farjeon Award in November 2012. This annual award administered by Children's...
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  • Benjamin Leopold Farjeon. His mother, Margaret Jefferson, was the daughter of the American actor, Joseph Jefferson. His sister was Eleanor Farjeon, the writer...
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    story Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep (first published in 1937) by Eleanor Farjeon. It is mentioned in Kipling's poem "The Run of the Downs." The hill...
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  • In turn, these editors of the hymn book Songs of Praise requested Eleanor Farjeon to write a further hymn text to the tune. This was "Morning Has Broken"...
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    H. (1918), Forty New Poems, A.C. Fifield. ASIN: B000R2BQIG Farjeon 1997. "Eleanor Farjeon - Authors - Faber & Faber". Faber.co.uk. Retrieved 13 October...
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  • Makes a Change – Mervyn Peake Equestrienne – Rachel Field Griselda – Eleanor Farjeon Maggie and Milly and Molly and May – E. E. Cummings Nursery Rhyme of...
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    for soli, chorus and orchestra of Laurence Binyon's Sursum Corda, Eleanor Farjeon's The Ithacans, John Masefield's The Seaport and her Sailors; a ballad...
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    Hamish Hamilton Book of Kings by Eleanor Farjeon & William Mayne (1964) The Hamish Hamilton Book of Queens by Eleanor Farjeon & William Mayne (1965) The Journey...
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  • Australia. In 2001, co-founder of Walker Books Amelia Edwards won the Eleanor Farjeon Award for her contributions to children's literature as the publisher's...
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    cats") When the curfew was rung, then I swung on the bell! Eleanor Farjeon and Herbert Farjeon, William I – 1066 in Kings and Queens (1932). These poems...
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    Morant. Several of the people on this list, including John Constable, Eleanor Farjeon, and Hugh Gaitskell are buried in the churchyard of St John-at-Hampstead...
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  • imprint Puffin Books. After her retirement in 1961, she received the Eleanor Farjeon Award from the Children's Book Circle. Graham's father was the editor...
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    Eleanor Farjeon received the first award in 1956...
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    promote literature for children and young adults. They were awarded the Eleanor Farjeon Award for outstanding services to children's books in 1982. From 2003...
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  • advisor for the website Love Reading 4 Kids. She is a recipient of the Eleanor Farjeon Award. Eccleshare was born in Cambridge and grew up in North London...
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  • the Mother (Frederick Ashton, 1940) Farjeon, Annabel (1986). Morning Has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae (Franklin Watts). ISBN 978-0-86203-225-8...
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    BookTrust lifetime achievement award in 2015. She was a recipient of the Eleanor Farjeon Award. She was a patron of the Association of Illustrators. Hughes...
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    Britons, who celebrate by drawing an enormous figure on the Downs. Eleanor Farjeon, in her book Martin Pippin in the Daisy Field (1937), gives a fancy...
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