Fairy Spell: How Two Girls Convinced the World That Fairies Are Real (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780544699489)

The true story of British cousins who fooled the world for more than 60 years with a remarkable hoax, photographs of "real" fairies. Exquisitely illustrated with art by Eliza Wheeler as well as the original photos taken by the girls.

In 1917, in Cottingley, England, a girl named Elsie took a picture of her younger cousin, Frances. Also in the photo was a group of fairies, fairies that the girls insisted were real. Through a remarkable set of circumstances, that photograph and the ones that followed came to be widely believed as evidence of real fairies. It was not until 1983 that the girls, then late in life, confessed that the Cottingley Fairies were a hoax. Their take is an extraordinary slice of history, from a time when anything in a photograph was assumed to be fact and it was possible to trick an eager public into believing something magical. Exquisitely illustrated with art and the original fairy photographs.

Author: Marc Tyler Nobleman
ISBN-10: 0544699483
ISBN-13: 9780544699489
Publisher: Clarion Books
Language: English
Published: 04/24/2018
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 10.10h x 8.20w x 0.40d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 194152 / Fairy Spell: How Two Girls Convinced the World That Fairies Are Real


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2018
Publishers Weekly 01/29/2018
School Library Journal 02/01/2018 pg. 114
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2018
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2018 pg. 109
Booklist 04/01/2018 pg. 66
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2018 - Superior,Well Above Average