C. S. Guild 1 hr 48 min read

A gentle fairy tale of tiny Minnie and her adventures with a squirrel and other small friends, written for a little girl who wanted a story she could read herself.

C. S. Guild's 1857 children's book is a sweet, simple fairy story in the Tom Thumb tradition. Charming, tender, of its era. Read it for a lovely little antebellum fairy tale, sized just right for the youngest readers.

In its time

Published in 1857, during the 1850s, fairy tale and moral fantasy for a mass reading public; the sensation novel stirs.

Reading it

1 hr 48 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).