A review by northernatlas
Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep by Eleanor Farjeon

4.0

READ THIS BOOK. To your kids, to yourself, to everybody. The original text was published in 1937, and Charlotte Voake brings the story to life with beautiful, delicate illustrations of the families of Mount Caburn, as well as the Trump-like Lord who wishes to build a wall around the footpaths, and erect one of his factories on the sacred hilltop without any real legal precedence so to do. Eerily similar to the political climate of 2017, 80 years later the problem still persists that an obstinate, money-hungry man of immense power bypasses legality and the common good for his own personal material gains. This book is a wonderful rally cry to keep on your shelves and read to your children as the age-old tradition of greed and corruption rears its ugly head on the world stage once more.