Queen Silver-Bell
Queen Silver-Bell is the first in a series of four children's books by Frances Hodgson Burnett with illustrations by Harrison Cady
In the first book the queen of the fairies, Queen Silver-Bell loses her 'temper' (which most people do not know is really a fairy[1]) and becomes known from then on as Queen Crosspatch. She knows that she will never find her temper again until she has done something that would make people - particularly children - believe in fairies as they used to "once upon a time" and so she decides to get a 'respectable' person to write the stories down as she tells them. The subsequent stories in the series all have the subtitle 'As Told By Queen Crosspatch'.
The first book Queen Silver-Bell also contains the story "How Winnie Hatched The Little Rooks".
Books in the series
- Queen Silver-Bell (November, 1906)
- Racketty-Packetty House (1906)
- The Cozy Lion (October, 1907)
- The Spring Cleaning (October, 1908)
References
- ↑ Queen Silver-Bell http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008LWE1OA
External Links
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Racketty-Packetty House and other stories public domain audiobook at LibriVox