Laura Lee Hope 1 hr 12 min read

In Toy Town, a magical toy department up an elevator in a big store, a little sawdust doll comes to life and has cozy adventures among the other toys.

Laura Lee Hope's 1920 book is a charming fantasy for very young children. Sweet, gentle, delightful. Read it for a warm nursery tale from the author of the Bobbsey Twins, a beloved sawdust doll's small adventures in a world of living toys, in the cozy, wholesome storytelling that made its author a fixture of early-twentieth-century children's books.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 12 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Harry L. Smith