Pumpkin Pie: Tales for Children

by Ruth M. Arthur

A collection of stories, including: The Story of Sarah Dormouse / Why Curliest Had to Change His Name / Pigeons / The Egg of Columbus / Belinda's Nut Store / Bruno the Milk-Cart Dog / The Brownie / Red Sabots / Green Shoes / Stumps, the Gnome / The Blow-Away Feather / The Story of Benjamin the Bad.

96 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1941

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.