Cover of Billy Bounce by W. W. Denslow

Billy Bounce by Dudley A. Bragdon & W. W. Denslow

A rubber-suited boy who bounces through the air foils the polished villain Nickel Plate across a landscape of Eggs-aggeration and Silly Land.

First published 1906 1900s English Juvenile

W. W. Denslow (illustrator of the original 'Wizard of Oz') and Dudley Bragdon's 1906 children's fantasy sends the bouncing hero through a whimsical, pun-filled dreamland of comic perils. A charming, gorgeously illustrated period piece of American nursery fantasy. Read it for buoyant, wordplay-loving children's adventure from one of Oz's original artists.

In its time
Published in 1906, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.
Reading it
3 hr 51 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

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