The Family from One End Street
First edition
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| Author | Eve Garnett |
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| Illustrator | Garnett |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | One End Street |
| Genre | Children's realist novel |
| Publisher | Frederick Muller |
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Publication date
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1937 |
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| Pages | 212 pp (first edition) |
| OCLC | 153872836 |
| LC Class | PZ7.G1843 Fam |
| Followed by | Further Adventures of the Family from One End Street |
The Family from One End Street is a realistic English children's novel, written and illustrated by Eve Garnett and published by Frederick Muller in 1937. It is "a classic story of life in a big, happy family." set in a small Sussex town in the south east of England. It was regarded as innovative and groundbreaking for its portrayal of a working-class family at a time when children's books were dominated by stories about middle-class children.
In 1938, Garnett won the second annual Carnegie Medal awarded by the Library Association for The Family from One End Street, recognising the best children's book by a British subject for the previous year. On the 70th anniversary of the Medal it was named one of the top ten winning works of the previous seventy years, selected by a panel from a public ballot to propose the all-time favourite.
It is regarded as a classic, and remains in print, most recently reissued as a Puffin Classic in 2014.
There were two sequels, Further Adventures of the Family from One End Street published in 1956 and Holiday at the Dew Drop Inn published in 1962 and subtitled "A One End Street story" in the United States.
Collectively, the three novels are referred to as the "One End Street" series.
The Ruggles family lives at No. 1 One End Street in the heart of Otwell, located on the Ouse river. Otwell-on-the-Ouse is a fictional town resembling Lewes, Sussex, where the author lived.
Josiah Ruggles works for Otwell council as a dustman and his wife Rosie takes in washing. They have seven children, so life is hard, but they are a happy family.
CILIP, successor to the Library Association, assigns the subject tags "family large roisterous" and "family working class" in its online presentation of the Carnegie Medal winning books.
The story begins with Lily Rose trying to help her mother Rosie with the ironing and ruining a green petticoat. She apologizes to its owner, Mrs Beaseley, who forgives her. Mrs Beaseley also gives Kate her niece's cast off clothes for her new school, as the government funds to help with this are paid in arrears. Kate loses the school hat, and tries to sell mushrooms to pay for a new one, but the original is eventually found.
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