The wonder clock
or, Four & twenty marvellous tales, being one for each hour of the day
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Author
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- Pyle, Katharine, d. 1938. - Contributor
Publication
1965 - Printed by Dover Publications, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Description
24 wonderful stories, one for each hour of the day (clock), each with frontispiece (woodcut?) by the author, who also collected and illustrated the stories in the book (perhaps he wrote some of them as well). The hourly frontispieces also described what was going on in The House at the hour in question. Pyle's pictures and text were antiquarian, quasi-medieval. My parents read these to all of their 5 children aloud over the years (1930s-1950s), usually on hot summer afternoons. We LOVED them.
Description
A short verse introduces a fairy tale for each hour of the day and night. Includes such tales as: Bearskin, The Clever Student and the Master of Black Arts, The White Bird, The Three Little Pigs and the Ogre, and King Stork.
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- Juvenile fiction
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