My Very Own Fairy Stories

By Gruelle, Johnny

Book Id: WPLBN0000580633
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 10.12 MB
Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	My Very Own Fairy Stories
Author:	Gruelle, Johnny
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Children's literature, Children's fiction
Collections:	Children's Literature Collection
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Publisher:	World Public Library Association


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Summary
Written and illustrated by Johnny Gruelle (1880–1938), the American artist and author who created Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy, this collection of original fairy stories was first published in 1917 by the P. F. Volland Company of Chicago. The first story begins with a little girl, Elsie May, who hears something squeaking in a chink of the fireplace, and the tales are full of the gentle magic that runs through all of Gruelle's work: small creatures who talk, kindly fairies, wishes granted, and mischief that ends in good humour. Gruelle's bright colour pictures, which fill the book, are as much a part of its charm as the text. It appeared just two years after he patented his Raggedy Ann doll and one year before the first Raggedy Ann Stories, and it shows the warm, whimsical style that made him one of the best-loved American children's authors of his time.

Excerpt
Excerpt: Mama exclaimed Elsie May there's something squeaking in one of the chinks in the fireplace and it stops whenever I come in I wonder what it is.