Ida Heijermans 1 hr 9 min read

A blind king who dreams, and a little candle-man, a pair of tender, luminous fairy tales for children, as lovely as sunshine.

Ida Heijermans's 1920 book gathers gentle fairy tales in Dutch. Warm, lyrical, of its era. Read it for charming Dutch children's wonder-tales, 'As Lovely as Sunshine' and 'The Little Candle-Man', soft, kindly stories of kings, dreams, and small magics, in the graceful storytelling tradition of early-twentieth-century Netherlands children's literature.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 9 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

George Wildschut