CHILDREN WHO LIVED IN A BARN, THE

This 1938 novel became a children's literature classic when it was reissued as a
Puffin paperback in 1955 (with the delightful cover partly reproduced here); bu
t we have published it for both adults and children to read. It shows five child
ren successfully looking after themselves when their parents go away and fail to
return; and 'it is partly because of modern curtailment of childhood independen
ce that Persephone Books (which has a cult following for its elegant resurrectio
n of novels by women writers) has reissued the novel,' wrote Rachel Johnson on t
he Daily Telegraph Education page.