Abbie Phillips Walker

Born in Exeter, Rhode Island, on June 6, 1867, Abbie Phillips Walker was an American writer remembered for children's fiction. Reference sources identify her as a children's author, and surviving editions of her work show that she wrote during the early 1900s.

Walker is most closely associated with her Sandman books, including Sandman's Goodnight Stories, The Sandman's Hour: Stories for Bedtime, and Sandman's Rainy Day Stories. These collections gather short tales of magical creatures, animals, and fairy-tale adventures, often with a calm, bedtime-friendly mood. Several editions were illustrated by Rhoda C. Chase, which helped give the books their warm, storybook charm.

She died on January 10, 1943. While biographical details about her life are limited in the sources readily available online, her work has endured through public-domain editions and audiobook recordings, keeping her imaginative nursery and bedtime stories available to new generations of listeners.