Like the award-winning The Little Bookroom, Eleanor Farjeon's Jim at the Corner is a collection of loosely related stories, perfect for reading aloud. These seafaring tales begin on a street corner in London, where Jim, a retired sailor, spends his days, passing the time telling a curious boy named Derry about life aboard his ship, the Rocking Horse. In the tradition of Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses and Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, Farjeon's tales of talking sea serpents and stew-eating chimpanzees bring the far near and turn ordinary weather into an astrological adventure. With pen-and-ink illustrations by the maritime master artist Edward Ardizzone, Jim at the Corner is an old-fashioned adventure for the eyes and the ears.