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This collection gathers nine short tales that shift everyday domestic scenes into sudden encounters with magic and absurdity. Young characters meet talking animals, enchanted objects, unlikely transformations, and improbable adventures that gently satirize adult manners while posing playful moral puzzles. Tone moves from quiet comedy to tall-tale exuberance and fairy-tale wonder, and pieces range from brisk sketches to longer episodic fantasies. The result is a varied sequence of imaginative vignettes that amuse with inventive reversals and center a warm, child-focused perspective.

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Title: Nine Unlikely Tales

Author: E. Nesbit

Illustrator: H. R. Millar

Claude A. Shepperson

Release date: September 9, 2015 [eBook #49913]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024

Language: English

Credits: Produced by Greg Weeks and the Online Distributed
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