Rose Struck 1 hr 32 min read

In a still, dark room where their mother lies ill on Christmas Eve, two little sisters whisper of the holiday, and a magical adventure in the winter woods begins.

Rose Struck's 1919 German children's book ('Pimsti-Pumsti, or Christmas in the Woods') is a tender holiday fairy tale. Warm, wistful, gentle juvenile fantasy. Read it for a sweet period Christmas fantasy of poor children and woodland magic, in German.

In its time

Published in 1919, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

1 hr 32 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).