THE MAGIC FISHBONE - BY CHARLES DICKENS - ILLUSTRATED BY F. D. BEDFORD - - A GUNSTON CLASSIC
The Magic Fishbone is a short holiday children's book written by Charles Dickens in 1867, who pretended that it was written by Miss Alice Rainbird, age 7. The book was one of four so-called "holiday romances." A Christmas Carol being one of the those comprising this group, (A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man and Ghost's Bargain), published in a children's magazing in the United States, and then reprinted in the British magazine called "All the Year Round". A charming story of Princess Alicia, who is given a magical fishbone by her fairy godmother and graciously uses the magic to improve the fortune of her parents, the King and Queen, and her eighteen brothers and sisters.