C. S. Guild 1 hr 20 min read

A gentle fairy story that breathes a deep love of Nature in all her forms, teaching, through beauty and simplicity, the kindly creed of loving well both man and bird and beast.

C. S. Guild's 1856 book is a tender fairy tale for children. Sweet, nature-loving, of its era. Read it for a charming mid-Victorian storybook infused with reverence for the natural world, a delicate, moral wonder-tale in the spirit of Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, written to delight children and all readers of unsophisticated, nature-loving tastes.

In its time

Published in 1856, during the 1850s, fairy tale and moral fantasy for a mass reading public; the sensation novel stirs.

Reading it

1 hr 20 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).