Harold Gaze 2 hr 22 min read

A quaint child slips from an old four-posted bed into a whirl of adventures, bears, thunderstorms, the Castle of the South Wind, and the Great West Land.

Harold Gaze's 1922 Australian children's fantasy sends its heroine through a cascade of whimsical, richly illustrated wonders. A charming period piece of antipodean nursery fantasy. Read it for the imaginative, dreamlike adventure of a vintage children's storybook.

In its time

Published in 1922, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

2 hr 22 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).