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A Natural History of Fairies

by Emily Hawkins
Jessica Roux
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This enchantingly illustrated natural history of fairies, compiled in the 1920s by the botanist Professor Elsie Arbour for her niece, is now unveiled for readers of today.
Featuring a gold foil–embossed cloth cover, a ribbon marker and sprayed gold edges, this gorgeous volume is filled with colourful sketches and precise notes detailing the secret life of fairies and their important role in the natural world.
Inside, you will discover the wide and wonderful array of different species of fairy around the globe and explore where and how they live. Delight in this hidden world as you learn all about:

  • The anatomy of a fairy (Land-based fairies have individual, separated toes, just as humans do. However, many species of water fairy have webbed feet.)
  • The life cycle of a fairy (When walking in the heather, be careful of the tiny flutterpillar of the Wicklow Fairy, decked out in greens and purples.)
  • Clever fairy camouflage (Reed fairies living in wetlands usually wear striped clothes to hide among the tall reeds.)
  • Fairies around the world (Meet the Lily Hopper of sub-Saharan Africa, the Queen Fairy of New Guinea, the Penguin Fairy of the Antarctic and many more.)
  • Fairy habitats (Fairies make their homes in all types of places: woodlands, jungles, deserts, the Poles and even human homes.)

    • Concluding with a reminder that we must protect the endangered habitats of fairies, and all other creatures too, this is a book to be treasured for a lifetime.

    • Creators

    • Series

      Folklore Field Guides

    • Publisher

    • Release date

      September 22, 2020

    • Formats

      • OverDrive Read

        • ISBN: 9780711261938

      • PDF ebook

        • ISBN: 9780711261938
        • File size: 55014 KB

    • Languages

      • English

    • Reviews

      • Kirkus

        July 1, 2020
        A scientist's survey of many types of fairies in their natural habitats. Cast as the side project of a botanist from early last century (that would be the 1900s), this sumptuously produced scrapbook offers both general and clinical observations on dozens of fairy species--from tiny puffball fairies to (judging from the picture) the squirrel-sized mountain tunder--in gardens, homes, and wild climes ranging from tropical to arctic. Despite having wings (wingless varieties are called "elves"), hatching from eggs, and undergoing metamorphic life cycle transformations from legless "flutterpillars" to adult(ish) "moppets," these nonmagical creatures are nonetheless classified as mammals by the fictive scientist. Roux follows suit in painted portraits of graceful, pointy-eared, anthropomorphic mites clad in discreet floral or leafy garb and sporting butterfly or insect wings. Rendered in the style of Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies, the diminutive figures maintain a white default but do show some variation in skin tones, hair types, and facial features. Stereotypically, all but one of the jungle fairies, including a "pygmy fairy," are brown-skinned, but specimens resident in other habitats or in adjoining entries often make a diverse showing. Savvy advice for responsible fairy watchers closes this nearly comprehensive (tooth fairies turned out to be too "elusive" to glimpse) catalog. Worldwide in scope, thoroughly informative, teeming with relentlessly cute poppets. (Fantasy. 10-13)

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