The Little Lame Prince and His Travelling-Cloak is a luminous Victorian fairy tale about Prince Dolor, a dispossessed and disabled child confined to a lonely tower after his uncle's usurpation. Through the gift of an enchanted cloak, Dolor learns the world beyond suffering, and the narrative transforms adventure into moral education. Its prose is clear, tender, and allegorical, joining nursery enchantment to the ethical seriousness of nineteenth-century children's literature, in kinship with George MacDonald's spiritual fantasy and the era's improving tales. Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, best known for John Halifax, Gentleman, brought to children's writing the same humane intelligence that shaped her novels of character, duty, and social sympathy. Her interest in vulnerability, moral resilience, and inward nobility informs Dolor's story. Writing as a woman deeply attentive to domestic feeling and social exclusion, Craik makes disability neither spectacle nor mere tragedy, but a condition through which patience, imagination, and justice acquire meaning. This book is warmly recommended to readers of classic children's literature, Victorian studies, and moral fantasy. It remains moving, elegant, and intellectually rewarding.