Kathleen Gray Nelson 43 min read

A Japanese fox knows a secret his American cousins never learned: live a hundred years unchased by a dog and become a woman, five hundred a wizard, a thousand a celestial fox with nine golden tails.

Kathleen Gray Nelson's 1915 book is a charming fantasy for children drawn from Japanese folklore. Whimsical, imaginative, warmly told. Read it for a delightful storybook tale of an ambitious fox and his long quest for the nine golden tails, steeped in the magic of old Japan.

In its time

Published in 1915, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Albertine Randall Wheelan