Abbie Farwell Brown 2 hr 10 min read

A mistreated boy flees a cruel master to live with a gentle hermit in the forest, learning the language of the beasts and the ways of the Animal Kingdom.

Abbie Farwell Brown's 1909 children's fantasy is a tender tale of kindness, nature, and healing. Warm, gentle, quietly magical juvenile fantasy. Read it for a lovely story of a boy who finds a home among the wild things and grows into a healer of both animals and men.

In its time

Published in 1909, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

2 hr 10 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).