Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1 hr 54 min read

The most beautiful prince ever born is left lame by a careless fall and shut away by a usurping uncle, until his fairy godmother brings him a magical travelling cloak that can carry him anywhere.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik's 1875 book is a beloved classic of children's fantasy. Tender, imaginative, gently wise. Read it for a moving wonder-tale of a disabled boy imprisoned in a lonely tower, whose flying cloak opens the whole world to him, a warm and enduring fable of the freedom of the imagination.

In its time

Published in 1875, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

1 hr 54 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Hope Dunlap