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Fairy Island: An Enchanted Tour of the Homes of the Little Folk

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I bought this book for my young daughter (age 5), and found that everyone including her was enthralled by the details inside, this book is a definite must for Fairy lovers, and fairies looking for interior design ideas.
My daughter now wants to make fairy houses for the local population here.

Remember The Borrowers or Miss Bianca or A Cricket in Times Square? Anyone who loved those childhood classics will fall in love with this book. The concept of little folk creating a home with found objects is so intriguing.
The authors feature as observers in this book which combines color photos, hand lettered text and sketchbook-like notes. It reminds me a bit of Gnomes which was such a hit 20 years ago or even the artwork in the Edwardian Lady's Sketchbook.
I read in our local paper about a family that recreated some of the scenes from this book in their own garden. The children loved gardening in miniature and finding small things to put in the fairy house. What a fun idea.

This is a very charming book for fairy fans as well as gardeners. The story is told from the point of view of the writer's grandmother and is a lovely story to read to a child or grandchild. I enjoyed it very much.

I bought this book for my four year old daughter, and while perspective is not a skill she's yet mastered enough to fully appreciate what she's looking at, she already adores it. This is a book that will keep on giving. It's as whimsical as you would expect, but it also teaches something to the reader, very subtly, about having the eye of an artist. It's a primer for creativity, a lesson in appreciating beauty in the world around you, and it does all this ever so charmingly.

A must-have for the creative type's library.

grab your hot cocoa and snuggle up with this book and your favorite blankie. i'm not a faerie fanatic but could not resist this book. the level of creativity shown here is overwhelming and you will find yourself 'ooooing' and 'aaaahing' and giggling at the turn of every page. lovely, lovely book.

oh, and if you're a faerie, these two ladies are the ones you want if you're doing any redecorating.

My 6 year old daughter and I have been reading about fairy houses for a couple months now. We have been able to add a complete unit studies to our learning. Even her brothers are helping her build fairy houses. Books like Fairy Island really spark creativity. I'm sure as the children grow, they will want to try the more detailed items. Till then, I'm having fun trying to create my own!

This is an awesome book for fairy lovers of all ages. The pictures are AMAZING!!! You can't believe how hard those fairies work to produce such lavish places of domesticity! You'll love it, or it would be a wonderful gift

This book was very creative, me and a friend have decided we are going to build faerie houses and this book has given us a few ideas. Of course our houses won't look like these ones, but it helps to see how other artists make them.

The title and cover caught my eye, but the insides blew me away. What a delightful trip! I took it along for my 8 year old grandson to look at on a trip his mother and I were taking. He sat in the back seat ooohing and aaahing the whole way, and informed me that he "couldn't wait to stay with me next summer so he could search the woods,prairie and gardens for little houses--and if we didn't find any, we should probably make some so the Fairies will come--especially around the pond because you know Nana Fairies love water!" What better thumbs-up than that!!!

a very interesting book, I will be looking at the ground in the woods now.