Ethel Calvert Phillips 1 hr 13 min read

A pony who wanted blue eyes, the town of Bo-Peep, the Brownie who found Christmas, a garland of cozy fairy tales spun around Santa's Snow Palace at the North Pole.

Ethel Calvert Phillips's 1928 collection gathers warm, whimsical stories for young children. Charming, gentle, seasonal. Read it for a cozy treasury of nursery tales, toys that come alive, brownies, and a Christmas at the North Pole, perfect for reading aloud in the festive season.

In its time

Published in 1928, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

1 hr 13 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

A. K. Macdonald