Charles Dickens

The Magic Fishbone A Holiday Romance from the Pen of Miss Alice Rainbird, Aged 7 Charles Dickens

The Magic Fishbone is a 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" (his much more famous Christmas Carol being one of the others comprising this group).

It was first published in a children's magazing in the United States, and then reprinted in the British magazine called "All the Year Round".




The book tells the story of Princess Alicia, who is given a magic fishbone by her fairy godmother and then uses the fishbone to improve the fortune of her parents, the King and Queen, and her eighteen brothers and sisters.




This is the extraordinary story of a very nearly ordinary princess named Alicia.

Given a magic fish-bone by a good fairy, Alicia can have whatever she wishes--provided she wishes for it at the right time.

But it's never clear when the right time is, and sometimes the best magic is no magic at all