Frances Browne 1 hr 20 min read

Little Snowflower is left alone with her granny's wonderful chair, which carries her to the king's Christmas feast, where it tells four enchanting fairy tales of its own.

Frances Browne's 1856 children's classic frames a garland of beloved fairy stories within the magic of a story-telling chair. Charming, warm, enduring Victorian fantasy. Read it for a treasured collection of nested fairy tales, gentle and imaginative, that has delighted children for generations.

In its time

Published in 1856, during the 1850s, fairy tale and moral fantasy for a mass reading public; the sensation novel stirs.

Reading it

1 hr 20 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Arthur A. Dixon