L. Frank Baum 
Twinkle Tales and Policeman Bluejay 

According to Wikipedia: 'The Twinkle Tales is a 1905 series by L. Frank Baum, published under the pen name Laura Bancroft. The six stories were issued in separate booklets by Baum’s publisher Reilly & Britton, with illustrations by Maginel Wright Enright. In 1911, the six eight-chapter stories were collected as Twinkle and Chubbins; Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland — which is a misnomer, since Chubbins appears in only two stories and few are set in 'Nature-Fairyland’… The series was a hit; Reilly & Britton sold 40, 000 copies of the little books in a short time. Such commercial success justified a sequel: Baum took his Policeman Bluejay character from the Twinkle Tale 'Bandit Jim Crow’ and cast him in a separate novel, to be issued the following year.’