| Fairy Spell: How Two Girls Convinced the World That Fairies Are Real Contributor(s): Nobleman, Marc Tyler (Author), Wheeler, Eliza (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0544699483 ISBN-13: 9780544699489 Publisher: Clarion Books OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Science - Folklore & Mythology - Juvenile Nonfiction | History - Europe - Juvenile Nonfiction | Photography |
| Dewey: 398.45 |
| LCCN: 2017023576 |
| Lexile Measure: 870 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 8.2" W x 10.1" (0.90 lbs) 40 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Girl's Interest - Topical - Girl's Interest |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 194152 Reading Level: 5.0 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Nobleman, Marc Tyler: - Marc Tyler Nobleman writes books for all ages. His titles include Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot's World War II Story, Fairy Spell: How Two Girls Convinced the World That Fairies Are Real, Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman, and Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman, which inspired both the Hulu feature documentary Batman & Bill and a TED Talk. Follow him on Twitter @MarcTNobleman and on Instragram @mtnobleman. Wheeler, Eliza: - Eliza Wheeler has illustrated several picture books including Miss Maple's Seeds, which she also wrote and which debuted on the NYT bestseller list, and Wherever You Go, written by Pat Zietlow Miller, a Crystal Kite winner. She lives in Los Angeles, California. Visit her online at wheelerstudio.com, and on Twitter and Instagram at @WheelerStudio. |