Marie Helene Gulbransen 35 min read

A voyage to No-Such Land, a magic purse, a wishing-ring, and an island that swims away, nursery adventures for the very young.

Marie Helene Gulbransen's 1924 children's book gathers whimsical fairy-tale episodes of Bumps and his friends through fantastical lands and gentle perils. A charming period artifact of 1920s American juvenile publishing. Read it for the sweet, wandering make-believe of a vintage nursery storybook.

In its time

Published in 1924, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

35 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

James W. Burbank