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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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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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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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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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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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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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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psychologist and educator Eleanor Lansing Dulles (1895–1996), American economist and diplomat Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965), British writer Eleanor Friedberger (born...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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lonely child in the novel The Longest Journey (novel) by E.M.Forster. Eleanor Farjeon talks about playing Halma in her autobiography A Nursery in the Nineties...
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writer on education and children's rights. Berg was a recipient of the Eleanor Farjeon Award. Berg was brought up in Salford, Lancashire, in a Jewish doctor's...
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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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friends in the summer of 1913 at the invitation of the poet and writer Eleanor Farjeon, while Thomas's wife Helen was in Switzerland. Wikimedia Commons has...
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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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(1974) 2:30 "Rubylove" (1971) 2:35 "Morning Has Broken" (Words by Eleanor Farjeon to the traditional tune Bunessan) (1971) 3:16 "Moonshadow" (1971) 2:48...
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of whom lived near the village in the period between 1911 and 1914. Eleanor Farjeon, who was involved with Edward Thomas, also visited. The group published...
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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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Broken", written especially for this edition by the English author Eleanor Farjeon, and set to the traditional Scottish Gaelic tune, "Bunessan". In 1933...
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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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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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