Katharine Pyle 1 hr 54 min read

Sick in bed and all alone, Teddy is visited by the Counterpane Fairy, who shows him wondrous stories in the folds of his own bedclothes, the golden castle, the ruby ring, the rainbow children.

Katharine Pyle's 1898 book is a tender, imaginative fantasy for children. Charming, dreamlike, gently comforting. Read it for a beloved sickbed classic, where a little fairy turns a child's convalescence into a garland of wonder-tales spun from the quilt itself.

In its time

Published in 1898, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

1 hr 54 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).