A Puffin Book
- stories that last a lifetime Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo A Puffin Book There are 20 titles to collect in the series listed below all with exciting new covers & fun-filled endnotes THE FAMILY FROM ONE END STREET by Eve Garnett is the story of everyday life in the big happy Ruggles family who live in the small town of Otwell Father is a dustman & Mother a washerwoman Then there's all the children
- practical Lily Rose clever Kate mischievous twins James & John followed by Jo who loves films little Peg & finally baby William A truly classic book awarded the Carnegie Medal as the best children's book of 1937 Eve Garnett was born in 1900 in Worcestershire & studied art at Chelsea Polytechnic & the Royal Academy School of Art Whilst a student she sketched the people of the East End slums & was haunted by the poverty she had witnessed resolving to do something to bring the plight of the working-class family to people's attention The Family from One End Street was originally published by Frederick Muller in 1937 followed by The Further Adventures of the Family from One End Street in 1956 & Holiday at Dew Drop Inn in 1962 She died in 1991 Also available in A Puffin Book GOODNIGHT MISTER TOM & BACK HOME by Michelle Magorian CHARLOTTE'S WEB STUART LITTLE & THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN by E B White THE BORROWERS by Mary Norton STIG OF THE DUMP by Clive King ROLL OF THUNDER HEAR MY CRY by Mildred D Taylor A DOG SO SMALL by Philippa Pearce GOBBOLINO by Ursula Moray Williams CARRIE'S WAR by Nina Bawden MRS FRISBY & THE RATS OF NIMH by Richard C O' Brien A WRINKLE IN TIME by Madeleine L' Engle THE CAY by Theodore Taylor TARKA THE OTTER by Henry Williamson WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams SMITH by Leon Garfield THE NEVERENDING STORY by Michael Ende ANNIE by Thomas Meehan THE FAMILY FROM ONE END STREET by Eve Garnett