Elsie Piddock Skips In Her Sleep - Softcover

"The poetic, incisive prose is well-matched by the featherlight line and muted pallette of the pictures. A book worth treasuring." TES Primary "By that most perfect of storytellers, Eleanor Farjeon. Charlotte Voake... has to be half fairy herself to produce such exquisitely delicate pictures." The Guardian

First published in 1937, this is the classic story of Little Elsie Piddock who can skip like never so. The High Skip, Slow Skip, the Skip Double-Double, the Long Skip, the Strong Skip, the Skip Against Trouble...Elsie Piddock learns them all. Soon she can even outskip the fairies on Mount Caburn and is rewarded by their Skipping-Master, Andy-Spandy, with a gift of rare and lasting value - a magical skipping-rope - that, many years later, helps her thwart an unpleasant landowner threatening to deny access to the skipping-ground.