Frances Hodgson Burnett 28 min read

Queen Crosspatch is very proud of this story, for she reformed the Lion herself and taught him to behave, one advantage of being a Fairy being that Lions simply can't bite you.

Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1907 book, by the author of 'The Secret Garden,' is a charming fantasy for children. Whimsical, warm, delightfully told. Read it for a genial fairy tale where a bossy little fairy queen tames a fierce but lonely lion into the coziest of creatures, in Burnett's tender storybook voice.

In its time

Published in 1907, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Harrison Cady