Background
Barbara Constance Freeman was born on 29 November 1906 in Ealing, near London.
(Broom-Adelaide and her father, the Emperor of the Little ...)
Broom-Adelaide and her father, the Emperor of the Little Empire, are trying to look after their subjects in their increasingly impoverished kingdom. There is also Madam Crowberry, her wicked governess, an old, drafty castle, and Benya, a talking fox that came in out of the cold demanding food for his masters. There is no question that Adelaide is a young duchess in distress, that the isolated castle is an eerie setting, and that Madam Crowberry is a witch. Can Adelaide learn to ride a broom, rout her governess and find the royal treasure Madam Crowberry has plotted to take?
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Barbara Constance Freeman was born on 29 November 1906 in Ealing, near London.
She attended the Tiffin Girls" School in Kingston upon Thames in Surrey and later studied at the Kingston School of Artist
She illustrated many books by other writers, including The Treasure Hunters by Enid Blyton, and many collections of fairy tales, both traditional tales by Grimm and Andersen and modern stories. Some of her earliest illustrations are found in The Cuckoo Book (1942), a book of fairy tales by Edith Mary Bell. She also contributed to comics, including Playhour, and to annuals, such as, Blackie"s Children"s Annual 1934.
By the 1960s she had begun writing and illustrating her own books for children and young adults.
Some have a touch of fantasy: in Two-Thumb Thomas the eponymous hero is raised by school cats. In Broom-Adelaide, a fox rides a flying broomstick.
Some, including Lucinda and The Name on the Glass, are set in the past, while in others, such as A Book by Georgina and The Other Face, the lives of the main characters are interwoven with history. Her books have not remained in print, but some of her illustrations are still available as posters and art prints.
(Broom-Adelaide and her father, the Emperor of the Little ...)
(A mysterious singing in the garden of the house next door...)