Lilian Bell 1 hr 39 min read

When the Equator comes loose and goes running off around the world, little Billy sets out on an enchanted trolley car to chase it down, meeting Nimbus, Jack Frost, and other wonders along the way.

Lilian Bell's 1911 book, illustrated by Peter Newell, is a whimsical fantasy for children. Playful, inventive, charming. Read it for a delightful nonsense adventure in the geographic-fantasy vein, where a boy's pursuit of the escaped Equator carries him on a merry, wonder-filled chase around the globe.

In its time

Published in 1911, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

1 hr 39 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Peter Newell