Garnett, Eve

Eve Garnett was born in Worcestershire and trained as a painter in London at Chelsea and then the Royal Academy Schools. Ill health curtailed her painting career and thus she became a very successful children's book writer and illustrator. Her first book THE FAMILY FROM ONE END STREET, was first published in 1937, won the Carnegie Gold Medal and has been in print ever since. It has also been adapted for radio as recently as 1999. She died in 1991.


Written and Illustrated by Eve Garnett Articles Reviews
1982
First Affections
1974
Lost and Found: Four Stories
1968
To Greenland's Icy Mountains
1962
Holiday at Dew Drop Inn
1956
Further Adventures from One End Street
1948
In and Out and Roundabout
1937
Family from One End Street
Articles
Illustrated by Eve Garnett Articles Reviews
1958
A Golden Land
1952
Book of the Seasons: An Anthology
1948
A Childs Garden of Verses
1938
Is it Well With the Child?
1932
Bad Baron of Crashbania
1927
The London Child
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