Raymond Paton 4 hr 15 min read

Ridgwell and Christine befriend Lal, a great stone lion who comes alive by night, and are swept into wondrous London adventures where fact, common sense, and probability are cheerfully left behind.

Raymond Paton's 1914 novel is a whimsical fantasy for children. Playful, imaginative, delightful. Read it for a charming Edwardian tale of two children and their friend a living statue, roaming a magical nighttime city, a warm, tongue-in-cheek storybook that gleefully prizes wonder over all dull realities.

In its time

Published in 1914, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

4 hr 15 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).