Originally appeared in Short Stories, December 1907
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1908 | The Old Nursery Stories | Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton | Collection | |8 | |
| October 1912 | The Magic World | Macmillan and Co. | Collection | 148 | |
| 1924 | The Magic World | Macmillan and Co. | Collection | 148 | |
| 1959 | The Magic World | London: E. Benn; New York: Coward-McCann | Collection | 148 | |
| October 1975 |
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The Old Nursery Stories | Hodder & Stoughton | Collection | |8 |
| 1980 |
|
The Magic World | Mayflower Books | Collection | 148 |
| 1980 |
|
The Magic World | Macmillan UK | Collection | 148 |
| 1981 |
|
The Old Nursery Stories | Knight Books | Collection | 100 |
| April 1989 |
|
The Magic World | Puffin / Penguin Books (US) | Collection | |
| August 1996 |
|
The Magic World | Puffin / Penguin Books (US) | Collection | 129 |
| September 2006 |
|
The Magic World | Aegypan | Collection | |82 |
| August 2008 | The Magic World | Paw Prints | Collection | |82 | |
| January 2009 | The Magic World | Project Gutenberg | Collection | |148 | |
| March 2009 |
|
The Magic World | LibriVox | Collection | |6 |
| December 2012 |
|
The Magic World | Start Publishing | Collection | |82 |
| September 2014 |
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The Magic World | SMK Books | Collection | 82 |
| 2015 |
|
Fairy Tales for Young Readers: By the Author of Shakespeare's Stories for Young Readers | Dover Publications | Collection | 76 |
| 2016 |
|
The Giant Book of Classic Cat Stories | Sam Teddy Publishing | Anthology | |
| April 2018 |
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The Magic World | SMK Books | Collection |