American Fairy TalesIn Chicago, an ordinary key unlocks a magical trunk packed with robbers and a pie. In Boston, five magical bon-bons make an ordinary senator, an ordinary professor, an ordinary girl and her ordinary parents do the most extraordinary things! A young cowboy lassoes Father Time; the dummy in Mr. Floman's department store window comes to life; and a tiny beetle gives a New England farm and his wife a pump which pumps not water, but gold! |
Contents
The Box of Robbers 7 | 7 |
Pictures by Ike Morgan | 25 |
The Queen of Quok | 43 |
The Girl Who Owned a Bear | 63 |
Pictures by Kennedy | 79 |
The Laughing Hippopotamus | 93 |
Pictures by Morgan | 113 |
The Capture of Father Time | 129 |
Pictures by Kennedy | 145 |
The Dummy That Lived | 165 |
The King of the Polar Bears | 183 |
The Mandarin and the Butterfly | 195 |
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