Carbonel: The King Of Cats

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CARBONEL

Barbara Sleigh was born in 1906 in Warwickshire. She took an art teacher’s training course, and began to write stories for children for radio. She was a lecturer at Goldsmiths’ Teacher Training College, then in 1933 joined the staff of BBC Children’s Hour. Three years later she married David Davis, who later became Head of Children’s Hour.

Her first children’s book, Carbonel, the first of what was later to become a Carbonel trilogy, was published in 1955 and is still one of the most popular fantasies for younger children.

Barbara Sleigh died in 1982.