THE MAGIC FISHBONE - an illustrated children's book by Charles Dickens: A Dickens Children's Classic

By Charles Dickens

There was once a King, and he had a Queen; and he was the manliest of his sex, and she was the loveliest of hers. The King was, in his private profession, Under Government. The Queen’s father had been a medical man out of town. They had nineteen children, and were always having more. Seventeen of these children took care of the baby; and Alicia, the eldest, took care of them all. Their ages varied from seven years to seven months.

One day the King was going to the office, when he stopped at the fishmonger’s to buy a pound and a half of salmon not too near the tail, which the Queen  had requested him to send home. Mr Pickles, the fishmonger, said, “Certainly, sir, is there any other article, Good-morning.”

But what of the old lady in the shop? The King hadn’t noticed her and she is VERY important to this story for she is the Good Fairy Grandmarina. But just how important you ask? Well, you’ll just have to download and read this story and find out for yourselves!
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Abela Publishing
• Release date: Jul 3, 2017
• ISBN: 9788826476353

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.

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The Magic Fishbone

A HOLIDAY ROMANCE FROM

THE PEN OF

MISS ALICE RAINBIRD, AGED 7.

BY

CHARLES DICKENS

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

BY S. BEATRICE PEARSE

Originally Published by

CONSTABLE AND CO. LTD., LONDON

[1911]

Resurrected by

ABELA BUBLISHING, LONDON

[2017]

The Magic Fishbone

Typographical arrangement of this edition

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FOREWORD

The story contained herein was written by Charles Dickens in 1867. It is the second of four stories entitled Holiday Romance and was published originally in a children’s magazine in America. It purports to be written by a child aged seven. It was republished in England in All the Year Round in 1868. For this and four other Christmas pieces Dickens received £1,000.

Holiday Romance was published in book