(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. Every day, old Jim sits on a crate on a London street corner, often regaling boy Derry with fantastical tales of his youthful seagoing adventures as mate on the good ship Rocking-horse. No one can tell stories like Farjeon, and these do not disappoint. With Ardizzone's scene-setting pen-and-ink vignette illustrations, this little book has oceans of appeal.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: December, 1958; November, 2017

(2) 4-6 New York Review Children's Collection series. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. The stories in this immensely satisfying reprint defy categorization, mixing fact and fantasy, sense and nonsense. There's nothing cloying or sentimental about them, shot through as they are with wisdom and longing, taking unexpected plot twists just when you think you know where the story is headed. Ardizzone's illustrations elaborate on Farjeon's stories without overwhelming them.

Reviewer: Terri Schmitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: August, 1956

(2) 1-3 Illustrated by Charlotte Voake. Elsie is a rope skipper so talented that the fairies take her under their wing and teach her all their secret steps. Included in Farjeon's 1937 collection Martin Pippin in the Daisy Field, this story was published alone a few years ago as part of the Candlewick Treasures series. Now it receives full-blown picture book treatment, with delicately colored drawings that dance off the pages as lightly as Elsie skips.

Reviewer: Terri Schmitz