Bertha Upton 19 min read

On a frosty Christmas Eve, when dolls and toys taste human joys, the wooden Dutch doll Peggy Deutchland wakes her neighbor Sarah Jane, 'I pine for liberty!', and their midnight adventures begin.

Bertha and Florence Upton's 1895 picture-book is a charming, historically important children's fantasy in verse. Playful, whimsical, of its era. Read it for a landmark early picture-book of toys come to life, the debut of the famous Golliwogg character, told in bouncing rhyme and beloved illustrations.

In its time

Published in 1895, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

19 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Florence K. Upton