Orem Library

Nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and experienced like the Skin Horse understand all about it. Like the Skin Horse, Margery Williams understood how toys--and people--become real through the wisdom and experience of love. This reissue of a favorite classic, with the original story and illustrations as they first appeared in 1922, will work its magic for all who read it.

When Henry the ghost has some strange health problems, Dr. Ouch's operation fixes almost everything.

A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

Though many try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenore's wish for the moon.

Johnny Lion has a bad cold and the medicine he takes and the dreams he has are both terrible.

In cumulative verse using rebuses, a young boy describes all the things he will need since he is not feeling well, until he learns school is closed because of a snowstorm.

Felix feels sick and does not want to eat or play, so his mother takes him to the doctor, who makes everything better.

Imagines the troubles inherent in getting a sick dinosaur to the doctor's office, or saying "open wide" to a very sharp-tooth carnotaurus.

When Sam has a cough, Mrs. Bear tends to him all through the cold night.

Jack, the rabbit, tries to make his friend Rick, a sick bear, feel better.