List of Illustrations
| "Then away he flew toward the dark line offorest" | Frontispiece | |
| "Ellen stood at the nursery window" | page | [9] |
| "Presently she shaded her eyes with her handand looked up at the sky" | page | [16] |
| "Mother Goose told her how to do it" | page | [22] |
| "Ellen thought they were the cunningest littlethings for dolls that she had ever seen" | page | [34] |
| "As her eyes grew used to the gloom she sawa very large and very ugly goat" | page | [40] |
| "The gander and Ellen began to let the ropeslip" | face page | [55] |
| "There stood a little dwarf holding a greatwooden spoon" | page | [59] |
| "It beat and buffeted them with its wings andhissed so piercingly in their ears that theydid not know what was after them" | face page | [73] |
| "Close to her was an enormous gray wolf" | page | [78] |
| "Spread its wings and flew up over his head" | page | [86] |
| "The slaves threw themselves down beforeher" | face page | [91] |
| "A terrible black genie appeared before her" | page | [100] |
| "Ellen climbed upon the gander's back andshe then could just reach the knocker" | page | [112] |
| "Ellen raised the horn to her lips and blew" | page | [122] |
| "Still he kept whispering in its ear" | page | [126] |
| "An enormous dragon lay stretched in a rockydefile" | page | [129] |
| "She saw a tall man oddly dressed in greenand yellow" | page | [138] |
| "Timidly the little girl took the white hand" | face page | [154] |
| "The fairy knelt before her and lifted the edgeof the cloak" | page | [162] |
| "The fairy drew his sword and pointed it ather" | face page | [171] |
| "Ellen put her ear against the golden wall" | page | [179] |
| Tailpiece | page | [183] |
[Chapter One]
Behind the Bookcase
Ellen stood at the nursery window looking out at the gray sky and the wet, blowing branches of the trees. It had been raining and blowing all day. The roof pipes poured out steady waterfalls; the lilacs bent over, heavy with the rain. Up in the sky a bird was trying to beat its way home against the wind.