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Twinkle and Chubbins is a collection of short children's stories compiled by L. Frank Baum, but released under the pen name Laura Bancroft. The stories included in the collection are: "Mr. Woodchuck", "Bandit Jim Crow", "Prairie-Dog Town", "Prince Mud-Turtle", "Twinkle's Enchantment", and "Sugar-Loaf Mountain". "Mr. Woodchuck" consists of Twinkle obtaining the cruelty of dog traps, which her daddy has set in order to get a woodchuck living on the property. She has a dream involving the woodchuck's family who show her the reality of what her daddy does. "Bandit Jim Crow" tells the storyline of a baby crow that Twinkle consumes as a a dog or cat that actually is a mean and villainous parrot. After he's nursed back again to health, he begins tormenting all the wild birds in the region until Policeman Bluejay must intervene. "Prairie-Dog Town" sees Twinkle and her good friend Chubbins embark on a magical adventure in to the underground community of the prairie dogs, once they have been shrunken right down to the same size as the dogs themselves! In "Prince Mud-Turtle", Twinkle discovers a strangely-colored turtle that she brings back with her. Twinkle then learns that the turtle is truly a prince who have been converted into a turtle by an bad giant and continues on an adventure to restore the turtle-prince to his real human form. "Twinkle's Enchantment" consists of Twinkle's trip when she gets into into a gulch to choose berries and complies with several proverb-based animals, such as a Rolling Stone That Gathers No Moss and the Wild birds of One Feather, among others. "Sugar-Loaf Mountain" follows the experience that Twinkle and Chubbins go on after finding a trap door leading them to Sugar-Loaf Mountain. Sugar-Loaf Mountain, as they discover, is populated by people manufactured from sugar. They meet the king, who requires them around the town to explore and meet the townspeople. L. Frank Baum (1856-1919), an American writer, journalist, and script writer, is most famously known for his children's literature. Baum attended college for movie theater and later supervised an opera house where he composed plays as well as acted in them. He previously many successes and accomplishments, but his most significant success is The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
