The Bubble Galleon: A Holiday Pantomime: Ernest Wells

Margery and Ian voyage to the queer land of Baste in a silver bubble. There they undertake marvellous adventures brought about by the theft of the Frost Fire and encounter other wonders such as the Timeless Stone. There's fabulous characters: Tiel Quintillian of the leaf-green beard, Miles Pennycook and his sweetheart Biddy Bluebell; the gallant Captain Tod (gallant, nut noisy); Mr Ned Kelly, young Harry Dale, the drover, the Brooding Brolga, the Mocking Lyre Bird and the Ancient One of How Many Years living in his Gibba-gunyah. Even Cobb and Co find a place...a wondrous and scarce Australian fantasy story to rank with Norman Lindsay's The Magic Pudding. Illustrated by R.W. Coulter.