“Joan Aiken has created so many wonderful stories for all to enjoy and we are thrilled to be publishing The Complete Armitage Family Stories in the form of The Serial Garden,” said spokesperson Poppy Stimpson. Published in the US in 2012, it was released in August in the UK by Virago Modern Classics, illustrated by Peter Bailey. As a teenager, in the late 1930s, she sent one of her Armitage stories, Yes, But Today is Tuesday, to the BBC, and it was accepted and broadcast.Īiken would go on writing about the Armitage family for the next 60 years, in between penning some of the 20th century’s best-loved children’s books, from the alternate history James III saga, which opens with 1962’s The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, to Black Hearts in Battersea and The Whispering Mountain, which won the Guardian award for children’s fiction in 1969.īefore she died in 2004, the author of more than 100 books, Aiken wrote the last few Armitage tales.
The tales of a family with a pet unicorn, a fairy godmother, to whom “lots of interesting and unusual things” happen – especially on a Monday – were first told to her little brother as they walked on the Sussex Downs. The author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, celebrated on Friday by a Google doodle, invented the stories of the Armitage children, Mark and Harriet, as a child.
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