Christopher Pearse Cranch 44 min read

Little Jacket runs off to sea, is shipwrecked, and washes up on a strange island, where he meets the last of the friendly giants, the Huggermuggers, and takes shelter in one giant's enormous boot.

Christopher Pearse Cranch's 1856 book is a delightful American fantasy for children. Whimsical, warm, imaginative. Read it for a charming Victorian tale of a tiny hero among gentle giants, an early gem of American children's fantasy in the vein of Gulliver, full of good-hearted wonder.

In its time

Published in 1856, during the 1850s, fairy tale and moral fantasy for a mass reading public; the sensation novel stirs.

Reading it

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