Project Gutenberg 2025-10-11 Public domain in the USA. 225 Tappan, Eva March 1854 1930 Chamberlain, Emily Hall 1875 1916 Chamberlin, Emily Hall 13019120 The house with the silver door $aBoston :$bHoughton Mifflin Company, $c1913. The house with the silver door -- King Hansel the First -- The Star Princess. Mary Glenn Krause, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The house with the silver door" by Eva March Tappan is a collection of children’s fairy tales written in the early 20th century. It offers whimsical, gently moral adventures filled with talking animals, enchanted tools, giants, and moonlit royalty, where brave children prove themselves through kindness, courage, and cleverness. The early stories center on siblings seeking a wondrous silver door for their parents and a boy named Hansel pursuing his fortune with the aid of magical helpers. The opening of the collection begins with “The House with the Silver Door,” in which Silverboy and Silvergirl leave their forest home to find a silver door, receiving riddling guidance from a Wizard Squirrel, bargaining with the All-Alone Axe, and enlisting a Gentle Giant on the way to the Moon Lady’s Wonder Palace. Silverboy’s quest for spider silk to reach the moon leads to his capture by the Slippery Spider, but he is rescued—along with the Pearl Princess—by the Thoughtful Snail and Friendly Glowworm; joyous weddings follow, and the siblings ultimately bring their parents to a golden palace behind a shining silver door. The next tale, “King Hansel the First,” shows Hansel trying four roads, helping a cock, a cat, and some bees who each give him a seed and shrewd advice for answering giants. Captured by three monstrous brothers, he survives by giving the right answers, while the giants meet their ends through their own folly and the enchanted world’s aid. In a dungeon, Hansel and a captive magician use the seeds to conjure food, a knife, and chalk for a protective circle, rout the last giant, and uncover a treasure-filled castle—where the excerpt closes as they prepare to claim a new beginning. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/housewithsilverd00tapp_0/page/n11/mode/2up 20250907180621tappan 1913 US en Fairy tales PZ Text 195099 2025-11-30T10:21:14.638183 text/html 169869 2025-10-11T00:20:43 text/html 820364 2025-11-30T10:21:19.392160 application/epub+zip 819272 2025-11-30T10:21:16.050190 application/epub+zip 271665 2025-11-30T10:21:15.300190 application/epub+zip 1574823 2025-11-30T10:21:21.782130 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1322793 2025-11-30T10:21:18.753144 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 168196 2025-11-30T10:21:14.210209 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 148199 2025-10-11T00:20:43 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16290 2025-11-30T10:21:21.921141 application/rdf+xml 20000 2025-11-30T10:21:15.502190 image/jpeg 3192 2025-11-30T10:21:15.399162 image/jpeg 1430353 2025-11-30T10:21:14.680165 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia