Charles E. Carryl 1 hr 30 min read

On a frosty night a little girl named Dorothy watches the wooden Admiral climb down from the shop-sign, and a caravan of toys comes to strange, whimsical life in a nonsense fantasy for children.

Charles E. Carryl's 1891 book is a delightful, Carroll-esque children's fantasy in the great nonsense tradition. Whimsical, inventive, charming. Read it for a beloved Victorian dream-adventure, talking toys, topsy-turvy logic, and comic verse, from an American master of the literary nonsense tale.

In its time

Published in 1891, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

1 hr 30 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Reginald B. Birch