A delight for everyone with a fondness for fairies, and for anyone who has ever started something that spun out of control.īack matter includes source notes, a bibliography, and an index. Her cousin Elsie (on book cover) painted some watercolor pictures of fairies, cut them out, and stuck them to branches with hatpins. Frances (photo below) truly believed in fairies. The Fairy Ring by Mary Losure: 9780763656706 : Books The enchanting true story of a girl who saw fairies, and another with a gift for art, who concocted a story to stay out of trouble and ended up fooling. But how were Frances and Elsie supposed to know that their photographs would fall into the hands of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? And who would have dreamed that the man who created the famous detective Sherlock Holmes believed ardently in fairies - and wanted very much to see one? Mary Losure presents this enthralling true story as a fanciful narrative featuring the original Cottingley fairy photos and previously unpublished drawings and images from the family’s archives. The Fairy Ring, or Elsie and Frances Fool the Word (Candlewick, March 2012) is the true story of the girls behind the famous Cottingley Fairy Photographs.

The girls promised each other they would never, ever tell that the photos weren’t real. Nobody but Frances saw them, so her cousin Elsie painted paper fairies and took photographs of them “dancing” around Frances to make the grown-ups stop teasing.

They were tiny men, dressed all in green. THE FAIRY RING OR ELSIE AND FRANCES FOOL THE WORLD by Mary Losure RELEASE DATE: MaThe remarkable, true story of a fairy hoax successfully perpetrated by two young girls in the early 1900s offers a fascinating examination of human nature. Frances was nine when she first saw the fairies.

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