Grant Balfour 53 min read

Romantic Robin is carried off to Fairyland, where a strange school class teaches him lessons from Hug-grippy the Affectionate and the Subtle Snake, in a fairy tale set in old Toronto.

Grant Balfour's 1908 book is a gentle, instructive fantasy for children, recommended in its day for Ontario schools. Charming, moral, of its era. Read it for a warm Canadian fairy tale where a boy's schooling among the fairies of Castle Frank teaches kindness and courage, told with old-fashioned tenderness.

In its time

Published in 1908, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

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