Lazy Bear Lane is a personal favorite of mine. Smith mentioned in Thorne Smith: His Life and Times that he wrote the story especially for his daughters, but this is a fantasy story all ages can enjoy. The editor's note from Thorne Smith: His Life and Times has a great summary of the story: Filled with the gentle, bemused magic of all his work, tender and understanding, [Lazy Bear Lane] tells the story of old Mr. and Mrs. Bingle, whom the enchantment of Lazy Bear brings back to youth again, to "all the lovely old lost things - the things we used to know." Through the mazes of a bright new world Lazy Bear leads the two new-made children, into a Never-Never land that would have delighted Barrie, to make the aquaintanceship of Rudolph and Albert, the timid bears, of the woodland school for young deer, of all the strange and enchanting creatures that Thorne Smith's brilliant imagination conjures up so successfully. Perhaps it lies closer to the author's heart than any other of his books, for it was written for his own two children.

This is a tough book to get a hold of and may be quite expensive since only one edition was ever produced.