Walter De La Mare: 32 books

     Now, it seemed clear to me after long brooding and musing that however beautiful were these regions of which I never wearied to read, and however wild and faithful and strange and lovely the people of the books, somewhere the former must remain yet, somewhere, in immortality serene, dwell they whom so many had spent life in dreaming of, and writing about.

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Later re-titled The Three Royal Monkeys, this fantastical tale follows three monkeys—Thumb, Thimble, and Nod—on their journey across wintry Africa in order to live with their uncle. Along the way they encounter strange and curious creatures, deadly beasts, and other wildly imaginative characters. A beautiful, wondrous story—ideal for adults and young readers alike.

The tiny Miss M. relates her orphan childhood, and the pain caused by her realization that she must either learn to tolerate her size or live with it in hatred. Hailed as “a poet’s book,” by critic J. C. Squire, the novel won the prestigious James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.