Animal Land Where There Are No People

Are you familiar with the Weedle, which "has such dainty little ways of pulling up potatos"? Or the Boddles, which "screams and eats candles and soap"? (I hope not.) Or the Ding, which "is so happy. It makes a great Hole in the Park." (I hope so!) If not, I recommend you acquire this little book, a collaboration between Sybil Corbet (a four-year-old), who described the animals, and her mother, Katharine, who drew the pictures and whose age at the time is not reported. It was first published in 1897, when children, apparently, were as kookily creative as they are now and at least some mothers could match them, and it was recently reprinted by a great little outfit in Philadelphia named 50 Watts Books. (Age 1 and up)