Sidford F. Hamp 1 hr 40 min read

Shadow-chasing children meet Admiral Boxwood, the royal yacht, and Coco Bolo Rex among the floating islands, guarded by a Blue-Gum Policeman.

Sidford F. Hamp's 1911 children's fantasy spins whimsical nonsense adventure through a realm of comic royalty and impossible geography. A charming, gently illustrated period piece of Edwardian juvenile fantasy. Read it for the playful, topsy-turvy make-believe of a turn-of-the-century children's storybook.

In its time

Published in 1911, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

1 hr 40 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Otto Hopp