Published in 1924.

I was discussing books with some friends on a Zoom call and recalled this one. By Compton Mckenzie, with brilliant drawings by A H Watson, this was one of my favourite books as a child. How to describe it? It was a mash-up, I suppose we'd say today, of nursery rhyme characters, Santa Claus, his assistant Puck. It's quite subversive, they're not always the kindly, saintly figures we're used to - Santa Claus gets annoyed with witches not keeping to the left in the sky. And Mistress Mary Quite Contrary's school was something else (spoiler alert - Red Riding Hood got expelled!)!