This carefully crafted ebook: "Christmas-Tree Land (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Mary Louisa Molesworth (1839-1921) was an English writer of children''s stories who wrote for children under the name of Mrs Molesworth. She is best known as a writer of books for the young, such as Tell Me a Story (1875), Carrots (1876), The Cuckoo Clock (1877), The Tapestry Room (1879), and A Christmas Child (1880). She has been called "the Jane Austen of the nursery".Excerpt:''There must be somebody living over there,'' he said. ''I see smoke rising—you can hardly see it now, the light is growing so dim, but I''m sure I did see it. There must be a little cottage there somewhere among the trees.'' ''Oh, how nice!'' exclaimed Maia. ''We must find it out. I wonder what sort of people live in it—gnomes or wood-spirits, perhaps? There couldn''t be any real people in such a lonely place.'' ''Gnomes and wood-spirits don''t need cottages, and they don''t make fires,'' replied Rollo.
