Coppertop: "The Adventures of a Quaint Child"

by Harold Gaze

Thats awfully strange! exclaimed Coppertop.If a Book of Travels cant move about a bit, who can?Not a bit, replied the Book without turning round. I must improve my circulation somehow! And if a book of travels cant move about a bit, who can, I should like to know?Come along, cried Tibbs.While Coppertop was wondering what reply to make, the Book reached out its hand and pulled the blind, which went up with such force that it twirled round and round the roller at the top.What a day for the first of December! exclaimed the Book. Im going to look for something better, and so saying, it sat on the floor and rapidly turned over its own pages, saying as it did South, East, West,Weathers never at its best.India, Egypt, or Japan,Give us better, if you can.Coppertop blinked at the book of travels, and then at the window, unable to believe her eyes.It was daybreak, and RAINING HARD.Oh dear, oh dear, how dreadfully botherating! she exclaimed, almost in tears.I simply must get a fine December day somehow. It will never do for them to arrive on a soaking wet day like this. Its all the fault of that stupid old clerk of the weather, he does get things so mixed up! Why, this is more like a horrid July day!Thats what it is, muttered the Book of Travels.

Kindle Edition

Published November 24, 2024

About the author

Harold Gaze was born in New Zealand in 1885. He studied art in London, moved to Australia during WWI, and finally settled in Pasadena, California in 1927, where he lived for over 30 years. Here he became known as a “The Bubble Man” and was frequently seen walking the neighborhoods in his top hat and cane. A celebrated writer and illustrator of children’s fantasy fiction, Harold delighted readers with more than a dozen original stories including "Coppertop," "The Goblin’s Glen," and The Merry Mite series. His work can be found in the collections of Scripps College (six works made for Miss Scripps herself), the National Museum of American Illustration, the Pasadena Museum of History, San Diego Museum of Art, and the Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection of Children's Illustration (Brandywine River Museum).