The Kingdom of Carbonel
by Sleigh, Barbara
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- first
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- Seller
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Harrogate, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
Barbara Sleigh (1906—1982) is the author of Carbonel: The King of The Cats (The New York Review Children’s Collection, 2004) and its two sequels, The Kingdom of Carbonel and Carbonel and Calidor (to be published by The New York Review Children’s Collection in 2010). She worked for the BBC’s Children’s Hour . Besides being a well-known illustrator of children’s books, Richard Kennedy (1910—1989) worked in oils and watercolors. He went to work for Leonard and Virginia Woolf at their embryonic Hogarth Press in 1926, at the age of sixteen, and was propelled into Bloomsbury life. He is the author of A Boy at Hogarth Press , an illustrated diary of his years there.
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- Bookseller
- John Atkinson Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14116
- Title
- The Kingdom of Carbonel
- Author
- Sleigh, Barbara
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Max Parrish & Co Ltd
- Date Published
- 1959
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