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The Fairies and the Christmas Child
The Fairies and the Christmas Child | Lilian Gask
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The Fairies and the Christmas Child (1912), by Lilian Gask, is an endearing and unjustly obscure work of fiction with some great Victorian fairy stories."I tried to be glad that I was a Christmas child. But I wasn't really until a long (…more)
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This wasn‘t quite a Christmas book. Fairies, pixies, elves, other mystical beings are willing to make themselves visible to a young boy whose birthday is Christmas Day. He and his father travel in England and Europe. At each locale he hears a new story from the local sprite. I became bored with the stories which had no point or moral to them that I could see. Adult themes would bore a child even more then me.

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