Marion St. John Webb 3 hr 19 min read

A birthday present sends two children through the other side of a tree into a land of the Grey Pumpkin, the Black Leaf, and the Goblin's Heath, on a perilous magical quest.

Marion St. John Webb's 1917 children's fantasy is a charming, adventurous journey into an enchanted world. Warm, imaginative, quest-driven juvenile fantasy. Read it for a delightful storybook adventure of brave children, strange lands, and a wicked enchantment to be broken.

In its time

Published in 1917, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 19 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Margaret Tarrant