Fannie Louise Apjohn 2 hr 15 min read

Once upon a time, five islands lay in a fine-weather stretch of the South Pacific, and on the smallest, central one, a pair of magic spectacles reveals everything as it truly is, however it may look.

Fannie Louise Apjohn's 1919 book is a charming fantasy adventure for children. Whimsical, imaginative, warmly told. Read it for a delightful island fairy tale where spectacles of truth, a helpful toucan, and other wonders carry young readers through a storybook South Seas of magic and marvel.

In its time

Published in 1919, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

2 hr 15 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).