For the second book conversation, I choose to discuss the short story, The Elves and the Shoemaker. The author of The Elves and the Shoemaker is Freya Littledale. Littledale was born in 1929 in New York City, NY. Littledale has written many stories. Some of these stories include Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Boy who Cried Wolf, The Snow Child, and The Farmer in the Soup. The Elves and the Shoemaker is a story about an older couple who became very poor. The husband is a shoemaker who finds himself with only one piece of leather left to make one pair of shoes. The shoemaker decides to cut the leather at night and finish making the pair of shoes in the morning. However, when he woke up the next morning and went to make the shoes, him and
