Edith King Hall 2 hr read

After the shutters go up, the toys come alive, and a marionette tells little Molly all their secrets.

Edith King Hall's 1900 children's book spins gentle nursery fantasy from the after-dark lives of a nursery's playthings, a rabbit, a mouse, a proud doll, a hansom-driver. A charming, richly illustrated period piece of Edwardian children's publishing. Read it for the sweet, old-fashioned magic of toys who wake when no one is watching.

In its time

Published in 1900, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

2 hr read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).