Gutta-Percha Willie
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- First published
- 1873
- Pages
- 132Digital edition
- Language
- English
- Reading difficulty
- 4 of 10
A little about the story
Willie Macmichael is a doctor's son in a Scottish country village, and he cannot stop making things. He builds a horse-shoeing forge, rigs up machines with spools and string, and sets about solving the village's practical problems, especially its need for clean water.
The other boys call him Six-fingered Jack and Gutta-Percha Willie, but his curiosity and goodness win everyone round. George MacDonald, the author of At the Back of the North Wind, wrote this gentle, thoughtful story about a boy who learns by doing.
Things You May Not Know About Gutta-Percha Willie
- Subtitled The Working Genius.
- Illustrated by Arthur Hughes, the Pre-Raphaelite painter who also illustrated Tom Brown's School Days.
- By George MacDonald, whose fantasies inspired C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien.
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Part of Freebookia's children's classics collection, added November 2026.
