Ethel Cook Eliot 2 hr 5 min read

One morning like any other, rough-handed Mrs. Freg shakes lazy-bones Eric awake, but this is to be the beginning of all things new for him, and of magic in a mist.

Ethel Cook Eliot's 1918 book is a lovely, lyrical fantasy for children. Dreamlike, tender, imaginative. Read it for a gentle wonder-tale of a lonely boy drawn into an enchanted wood, its bright house, its tree-mother, and a beautiful wicked witch, in prose as soft and magical as the mist that opens it.

In its time

Published in 1918, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

2 hr 5 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).