The elves and the shoemaker
Mary Patric
Hardcover
(Pied Piper Books, March 15, 1946)
This is not a Print-on-Demand, modern reprint or facsimile book. It is a children's board book designed and produced by Domesday Press, Inc. It has a 1946 held by Pied Piper Books, Inc. The binding is by FM. Charlton Co., Inc. Illustrated by Dorcas. The pages are not numbered. The original story is the first of three fairy tales, contained as entry 39 in the German Grimm's Fairy Tales. A poor shoemaker discovers elves making his shoes. The shoemaker and wife make clothes for the elves as a Christmas surprise. The next day, but the elves are freed when given clothes, so they leave, and the shoemaker and his wife never see them again