In The Little Bookroom, originally published in 1955 and winner of the first Hans Christian Andersen Award and the Carnegie Medal, Eleanor Farjeon mischievously tilts the workaday world to reveal its wonders and follies. Peopling her selection of her favorite stories, 27 in all, are powerful — and sometimes exceedingly silly — monarchs, and commoners who are every bit their match; musicians and dancers who live for art rather than earthly reward; six princesses who are too proud to taste life; and a goldfish who wishes to "marry the Moon, surpass the Sun, and possess the World."