The Family from One End Street is a realistic English children's novel, written and illustrated by Eve Garnett and published by Frederick Muller in 1937. Set in a small Sussex town, it was considered innovative and groundbreaking for its portrayal of a working-class family in a genre dominated by middle-class stories. Yet it is "a classic story of life in a big, happy family."
Garnett and The Family won the second annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. (It beat Tolkien's The Hobbit among others.) For the 70th anniversary of the Medal it was named one of the top ten winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite. It is regarded as a classic, having remained in print to the present day.
There were two sequels, Further Adventures of the Family from One End Street in 1956 and Holiday at the Dew Drop Inn in 1962, subtitled "A One End Street story" in the U.S. Collectively the three novels are sometimes called the "One End Street" series.
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