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The Rainbow Book: Tales of Fun & Fancy
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spielmann, M. H. (Mabel Henrietta), 1862-1938.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : multiple file formats
- Other Title:
- The Rainbow Book: Tales of Fun and Fancy
- Place of Publication:
- Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,
- Summary:
- "The Rainbow Book: Tales of Fun & Fancy" by M. H. Spielmann is a collection of children's fantasy tales written in the early 20th century. The stories feature whimsical adventures that transport readers to imaginative realms, often involving children who interact with fairies, wizards, and various creatures. The whimsical and light-hearted nature of the tales suggests an emphasis on creativity, humor, and the importance of imagination. At the start of the collection, we meet twins Cyril and Dulcie, who are frustrated by being confined indoors due to the rain. They soon discover a hidden passage through a rocky landscape, which leads them to a mysterious red door and the eccentric Wizard. As they engage with him, he offers them magical bracelets that allow them to transform into various animals or birds, hinting at the adventures that await them. However, beneath the humorous and playful surface, there's a sense of warning about the risks associated with such transformations, setting the stage for the enchanting yet cautionary tales that follow. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
- Contents:
- Adventures in Wizard-land
- The old-fangled father and his new-fangled sons
- The little picture girl
- The sleeping beauty's dream
- The gamekeeper's daughter
- All on a fifth of November
- Father Christmas at home
- A birthday story
- Little Starry
- Cedric's unaccountable adventure
- Rosella
- The cuckoo that lived in the clock-house
- Christmas at the court of King Jorum
- One April day
- The storm the teapot brewed
- Monica the moon child.
- Credits:
- Produced by David Edwards, Matthew Wheaton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Notes:
- Reading ease score: 79.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
- Release date is 2011-09-16
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