E. Nesbit 4 hr 11 min read

Lonely Philip builds a great city out of books, candlesticks, chessmen, and toys, and wakes to find himself tiny, inside his own creation, where three days later Mr. Noah arrives by elephant.

E. Nesbit's 1910 novel is a delightful, inventive children's fantasy. Whimsical, imaginative, warm. Read it for classic Nesbit, a boy magically shrunk into the wondrous city he built from household odds and ends, where he must play the hero and mend the quarrels of a world of his own making.

In its time

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

Reading it

4 hr 11 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

H. R. Millar