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Penelope Farmer

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Born: June 13 1939

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British children's author Penelope Farmer was born in 1939, in Westerham, Kent, the daughter of Hugh Robert MacDonald and Penelope Boothby Farmer. She published her first book, The China People, in 1960, going on to use one of the longer stories originally intended for that collection as the basis of her first novel, The Summer Birds, which received a Carnegie commendation.

Penelope Farmer

4/5 ( ratings)

Born: June 13 1939

Website: Go to Website

British children's author Penelope Farmer was born in 1939, in Westerham, Kent, the daughter of Hugh Robert MacDonald and Penelope Boothby Farmer. She published her first book, The China People, in 1960, going on to use one of the longer stories originally intended for that collection as the basis of her first novel, The Summer Birds, which received a Carnegie commendation.

Books from Penelope Farmer

The Summer Birds

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Charlotte Sometimes

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Emma in Winter

3.7/5 ( ratings)

A Castle of Bone

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Daedalus and Icarus

3.7/5 ( ratings)

William and Mary

2.9/5 ( ratings)

Eve: Her Story

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Magic Stone

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The Story Of Persephone

The China People

Soumchi

Sisters

Standing In The Shadow

Penelope

Granny And Me

Twin Trouble

The Virago Book of Grandmothers

Glasshouses

Thicker Than Water

Twins and Doubles: The Book of Twins and Doubles, an Autobiographical Anthology of Twins