About the book: 2015 / We offer the young reader a children's fairy tale novel about the adventures of a young prince who fled from his country, in the land of fairies and brownie house spirits . Palmer Cox's books about the little brownie people, with illustrations by the author, were extremely popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They are still published today. This popularity inspired the Soviet storyteller Nikolai Nosov to compose a story about Dunno and other little people (1953). By that time, everyone had completely forgotten that it was Palmer Cox who was the first to bring out the small, but very friendly and militant little men..