Katharine Pyle 1 hr 55 min read

A child slips behind the bookcase and beyond the wall into a fairyland of five little pigs, seven dwarfs, and the Princess Goldenhair.

Katharine Pyle's 1901 children's fantasy carries its young heroine through a patchwork of beloved tales, Bluebeard's house, the great gray wolf, the land of the Queerbodies, in the gentle, richly illustrated manner of turn-of-the-century nursery books. A charming period fairy-tale journey. Read it for a warm, wandering children's fantasy that visits one storybook wonder after another.

In its time

Published in 1901, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

1 hr 55 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).