Abbie Phillips Walker 1 hr 51 min read

The Eatyoup, the tell-tale goblin, Dame Cricket's story, the revenge of the gnomes, a garland of gentle bedtime tales for little ones, spun for the drowsy hour before sleep.

Abbie Phillips Walker's 1921 collection is a warm, old-fashioned book of children's fantasy and fairy stories. Sweet, soothing, charmingly quaint. Read it for a treasury of cozy goodnight tales, flower fairies, mischievous goblins, and gentle wonders to send a child off to dreams.

In its time

Published in 1921, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

1 hr 51 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Rhoda Chase