In the home of my childhood there was a room we called ‘The Little Bookroom.’ … That dusty bookroom, whose windows were never opened … opened magic casements for me through which I looked out on other worlds … worlds filled with poetry and prose and fact and fantasy… -Eleanor Farjeon

In The Little Bookroom, Eleanor Farjeon mischievously tilts our workaday world to reveal its wonders and follies. Her selection of her favorite stories describes powerful-and sometimes exceedingly silly-monarchs, and commoners who are every bit their match; musicians and dancers who live for aft rather than earthly reward; and a goldfish who wishes to marry the Moon, surpass the Sun, and possess the World.