G. E. Farrow 2 hr 5 min read

Shin Shira appears and disappears at the oddest moments, a genial fairy gentleman who whisks a young friend off by magic carpet to meet dragons, duchesses, and the great bird Roc.

G. E. Farrow's 1902 book, by the author of 'The Wallypug of Why,' is a delightful children's fantasy. Whimsical, playful, charming. Read it for a genial Victorian nonsense adventure, a vanishing fairy visitor and a boy swept into a string of comic wonders, in the beloved Carrollian tradition.

In its time

Published in 1902, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

W. G. Easton