![]() ![]() It is regarded as a classic, and remains in print, most recently reissued as a Puffin Classic in 2014. On the 70th anniversary of the Medal it was named one of the top ten winning works of the previous seventy years, selected by a panel from a public ballot to propose the all-time favourite. ![]() ![]() In 1938, Garnett won the second annual Carnegie Medal awarded by the Library Association for The Family from One End Street, recognising the best children's book by a British subject for the previous year. It was regarded as innovative and groundbreaking for its portrayal of a working-class family at a time when children's books were dominated by stories about middle-class children. It is "a classic story of life in a big, happy family." set in a small Sussex town in the south east of England. "The Family from One End Street is a realistic English children's novel, written and illustrated by Eve Garnett and published by Frederick Muller in 1937. No jacket, spine-head and spine-base lightly bumped, front hinge starting, ink name on front endpaper. ![]()
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