Knowledge (XXG)

The Twinkle Tales

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is about how Twinkle and her friend Chubbins discover a trap door in Sugar-Loaf Mountain. They find a key and enter inside the mountain, where they find a city peopled by beings made entirely out of sugar of one form or another. They are captured by soldiers and taken to the king, who shows them the
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is about Twinkle entering a gulch in order to get some berries. She meets many curious proverb-based creatures, such a Rolling Stone That Gathers No Moss, a Little Learning (which she avoids because it is a dangerous thing), a Weasel that Goes "Pop!", and the Birds of One Feather. She then spends
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is about Twinkle finding an unusually-colored turtle and bringing it home with her. She later finds that the turtle is a fairy prince named Melga who was put under a curse by the evil Corrugated Giant, a creature with no bones. With the help of the turtle, Twinkle is able to travel to the giant's
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village. The prairie dogs talk to the children, and the children are magically shrunk down to prairie-dog size so they can enter the village. Inside, they meet a well-to-do family and the mayor of the prairie dog village. The two children are returned to their normal size, and wonder if the whole
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is about a baby crow with a broken wing that Twinkle adopts for a pet. The crow has an evil nature, and as soon as his wing is healed, he kills the family's chickens and escapes to a section of the forest inhabited by birds. There, Jim Crow starts stealing and eating other birds' eggs, until the
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is about the time Twinkle's father sets a trap for a woodchuck that lives near his property. Twinkle goes to see the woodchuck get caught, and has a dream in which she meets the woodchuck and his family. The woodchucks put her on trial for being a human, because humans set cruel traps for the
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birds get Policeman Bluejay to keep Jim Crow in check. Jim then disguises himself with chalk, and continues stealing eggs. All the birds attack the disguised Jim Crow, and blind him. Jim Crow is forced to spend the rest of his life helpless, living off of the kindness of the other birds.
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purposes of killing woodchucks. Twinkle is sentenced to be put in a trap herself, and when she wakes up from the dream, she convinces her father never to set traps for animals ever again.
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sights and introduces them to several high-grade citizens. While leaving, Twinkle and Chubbins accidentally drop the key inside, so no one can ever enter Sugar-Loaf Mountain again.
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for its second edition. Baum later wanted these Bancroft stories published under his own name, and in 1917 his publisher released a second edition of
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castle and restore the prince to his normal form. The prince then defeats the giant, and Twinkle is sent back home.
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adventure was simply a dream. (Compare a similar story, "The Discontented Gopher," in Baum's
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time with a dancing bear, and is invited to a grasshopper's ball. She wakes up.
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Twinkle and Chubbins : Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland
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is about how Twinkle and her friend Chubbins go to have a picnic near a
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Twinkle and Chubbins; Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland
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Twinkle and Chubbins; Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland
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L. Frank Baum
Reilly & Britton
Maginel Wright Enright
Policeman Bluejay
prairie dog
Animal Fairy Tales
Twinkle and Chubbins : Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland
Project Gutenberg
Twinkle and Chubbins; Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland
LibriVox
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L. Frank Baum
Bibliography
The Magical Monarch of Mo
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Dot and Tot of Merryland
The Master Key
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
The Enchanted Island of Yew
The Marvelous Land of Oz
Queen Zixi of Ix
The Fate of a Crown
The Woggle-Bug Book
Annabel
Aunt Jane's Nieces
Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad
Daughters of Destiny

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