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Category: Read a story

The Sad Periwinkle

Posted on June 24, 2021June 24, 2021 by arvindicate

From The Nightingale and other stories, published by Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1951. Illustration by Garry Mackenzie. Once upon a time there was a periwinkle. He was a tiny snail, with a shell just about as big as a farthing, and he lived among the rocks and the seaweed on the sea-shore. It was Read more about The Sad Periwinkle[…]

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