Friendly Stories

by Ruth M. Arthur

A collection of short stories, Granny Crab's Shawl / George's New Pyjamas / Miss Beetle's School / Mrs Bobtail's New House / Autumn in the Wood / The Mouse Supper / Mrs Fish's Washing-Day / How David Went to London / Billy's Bail / The Legend of the Pussy Willow.

56 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1932

About the author

Working name of UK writer Ruth Mabel Arthur Huggins, long active as a children's author, her career beginning with Friendly Stories (collection, 1932). Most of her early work, like the Brownie sequence -- The Crooked Brownie (1936), The Crooked Brownie in Town (1942) and The Crooked Brownie at the Seaside (1942) -- is for younger children, but with Dragon Summer (1962) and A Candle in her Room (1966) she began to write the haunting fantasy-tinged adolescent novels for which she became best known. Often featuring first-person narratives spanning multiple generations filled with echoes of centuries past.