Davy and the Goblin or What followed reading "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1885) by: Charles Edward Carryl. Illustrations were drawn by: E.B. Be

By Charles E. Carryl

Book Overview

This children's story follows the adventures of Davy, a young boy in his wanderings through a fantasy world. Illustrations were drawn by E.B. Bensell. Charles Edward Caryl (December 30, 1841 - July 3, 1920) was an American children's literature author.Born in New York, Carryl became a second-generation successful businessman; and a stockbroker, who for 34 years starting in 1874 held a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. In 1869 he married Mary Wetmore. Their elder child was the poet and humorist Guy Wetmore Carryl. In 1882 Charles E. Carryl published his first work: Stock Exchange Primer. In 1884 he published the children's fantasy Davy and the Goblin; or, What Followed Reading "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", serialized in the magazine St Nicholas. His work includes the children's nonsense poem "The Walloping Window Blind", published in 1885, in a verse style similar to Lewis Carroll's: A capital ship for an ocean trip/Was the Walloping Window-Blind;/No wind that blew dismayed her crew/Or troubled the captain's mind. A second novel, The Admiral's Caravan, also serialized in St Nicholas beginning in December 1891, was dedicated to his daughter Constance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978308760
• ISBN13: 9781978308763
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Good because of Hildebrandt's illustration

- but I found the story weak and scattered. The pictures split between pencil sketches and incredible paintings. The sketches are good, but the paintings are everything I hope for in Hildebrandt's work. They capture draftmanship, color, expression, and light in a wonderul balance. The story goes back to 1900 or so (the only clue is that the author died in 1920, about age 60). A small boy follows a magical being through worlds of fantasy and fairy tale, learns to believe in the unbelievable, and wakes to find that it was all a dream. It's been done before, it will be done again, and it can be good, but this just didn't engage me. The changes were so frequent and abrupt that it was easy to skip a cog. If you read this to a small child, though, the brief vignettes may suit the brief attention span. Four stars - all for the illustration. It would have been 5 if there were more samples of Hildebrandt's art, or maybe if a kid had been there to advise me on the proper reading of this story. //wiredweird