Sarah Elizabeth Birdsall Otis 54 min read

The giants all woke up, and each one rushed to a window, the opening of a garland of giants, griffins, and gentle wonders, written by a mother for her own little girl.

Birdsall Otis Edey's 1903 collection is a warm, charming book of fairy tales for children. Sweet, imaginative, tenderly told. Read it for a cozy turn-of-the-century treasury of storybook magic, giants and griffins and quiet marvels, offered with a mother's love to the young at heart.

In its time

Published in 1903, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

54 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Beatrice Baxter Ruyl