Barbara Sleigh 

 

 

Barbara Sleigh, who was born in Warwickshire in 1906, is best known for the magical book Carbonel, the delightful story of Rosemary and a witch's cat.

 

She took an art teacher's training course and later began to write children's stories for radio.  She was a lecturer at Goldsmith's College and in 1933 joined the staff of BBC Children's Hour.  Three years later she married David Davis who planned the music for Children's Hour and produced plays for it.  He went on to become the Head of Children's Hour.  Barbara wrote scripts and compared children's programmes.  They had one son and two daughters.  Barbara said that her special interests were "cats and children - my own and other people's."  Carbonel was her first book. and was chosen as a 'Book of the Month' by the Young Elizabethan magazine as a 'most sensible, it-could-easily-have-happened fairy story.'

 

Barbara died in 1982.

 

Carbonel is back in print at long last. Check out Amazon'slisting for October 2004.

 

Barbara also wrote two sequels to Carbonel:

 

The Kingdom of Carbonel,  and

Carbonel and Calidor

 

Other books written by Barbara Sleigh

 

 

 

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