E. Nesbit 4 hr 3 min read

A boy turned into a cat, a mine full of magic, a princess and a hedge-pig, a magician's stolen heart, twelve sparkling tales of everyday children stumbling into enchantment.

E. Nesbit's 1912 collection gathers some of her finest short fantasies for children. Witty, inventive, delightful. Read it for classic Nesbit magic in miniature, a dozen clever, funny wonder-tales where ordinary boys and girls meet dragons, wishes, and enchantments, from a master of children's fantasy.

In its time

Published in 1912, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

4 hr 3 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

H. R. Millar