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Jim at the Corner (New York Review Children's Collection)
Jim at the Corner - New York Review Children's Collection Author:Eleanor Farjeon These seafaring tales begin on a street corner where Jim, a retired sailor, spends his days, passing the time telling a curious boy named Derry about life aboard his ship, the Rockinghorse. In the tradition of Robert Louis Stevenson?s A Child?s Garden of Verses and Rudyard Kipling?s Just So Stories, Farjeon?s tales of talking sea serpents and st... more »ew-eating chimpanzees bring the far near and turn ordinary weather into an astronomical adventure. With pen-and-ink illustrations by the maritime master artist Edward Ardizzone, Jim at the Corner is an old-fashioned adventure for the eyes and the ears.« less