num_pages: 240
description: In 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 farmer and his wife a pump which pumps not water but gold!Author of the much-loved Oz books L. Frank Baum transforms the familiar with his magical mix of humor and enchantment. Most of the twelve stories in this delightful collection are set in America where so it seems modern fairies knooks and ryls are always causing the most astonishing things to happen! These tales will enchant both young and old.When American Fairy Tales first appeared Baum's reputation as a storyteller had already been established by The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written in 1900. The twelve stories in this collection were originally syndicated weekly in at least five newspapers during the first half of 1901. The first book edition which this facsimile reprints came out later that year.
language: English
title: American Fairy Tales
publisher: Dover Publications