Lucy Hamilton Warner 44 min read

Queen Wishtah summons her four little elves and sends them out into the world, past garden toads, glowworms, and poppies, on a gentle quest to find the beautiful world.

Lucy Hamilton Warner's 1895 book is a charming fantasy for young children. Sweet, whimsical, delicate. Read it for a tender Victorian nursery tale of tiny elves on a wondering journey through a garden world of insects and flowers, prettily illustrated, offering the youngest readers a soft, imaginative ramble in search of beauty.

In its time

Published in 1895, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

George Willis Bardwell