This sumptuous gift book contains a second, hidden handbook in a secret compartment at the back
Do you believe in fairies? Would you like to join a secret club of fairy experts, who search for and look after fairies and other magical creatures in the wild? Now is the time to earn your place in the Secret Fairy Club.
Earn ten badges on your journey towards becoming an official Secret Fairy Club member and learn all about:
- the perfect fairy wardrobe
- where fairies make their homes
- how fairies help the nature around them
- how fairies get ready for a Fairy Ball
. . . and so much more!
Guard the precious knowledge within these pages for the good of all magical kind . . . · This novelty format contains a surprise, second book in the back · Artwork offers an inclusive, 21st-century take on an ever-popular topic · Intricate artwork and full cover decorative foiling make this the perfect gift.---from the publisher
24 pages 978-1917044271 Ages 5-8
Keywords: fairies, club, fantasy and magic, fun, book in a book, nature, magical creatures, 5 year old, 6 year old, 7 year old, 8 year old, fairy world
Also in this series: The Secret Unicorn Club
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One on my earliest childhood memories is my grandmother sharing Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies with me, as I lay in her big double bed face swollen with the mumps and beyond miserable. Living in Bluff where the next stop is Antarctica, as the waves crashed across the road but the room was warm as because there was a fire in the hearth (it was a long time ago) she read the poems from the book that she had given my mum when she was a child and which I still treasure.
So it is no surprise that despite (or because of) being the only girl growing up amongst eight boys (seven of them were cousins) I grew up in a world of fantasy and fairyland; that my favourite authors were Enid Blyton, Peg Maltby, Shirley Barber, and, of course, Barker herself; and that as soon as I knew I was having a granddaughter, the nursery and later, bedroom, were always going to be a wonderland, shelves full of classic and modern fairy books! Not to mention my obsession with buying Flower Fairy fabric!
My granddaughters were always going to dwell in Fairyland...[/caption]
And so I was the perfect person to answer the first question in this magical book - A very special society is looking for new recruits to join their number. I don't suppose you'd be interested, would you? They don't say anything about an age limit - just adopt a fairy name (Barbara Freesia) and then read the information about fairies in the book, and collect the badges as I go, then after reciting the ancient oath, find the secret surprise at the end! What could be better for someone who is still that little girl with mumps - or any little one you know who believes?
This is a companion to The Secret Unicorn Club, and is just as enchanting. Its presentation follows a similar format as readers learn about where fairies are found, where they live, what they wear, how they help to protect their world, and culminating in the Fairy Queen's Ball. Information is in manageable chunks and there are plenty of illustrations to pore over. It even has its own secret book hidden away, a story within a story.
Usually my review copies go to local schools but this one will be on that shelf of special books, right beside that one my grandma read to me and The Sun's Babies, a 1910 publication that she, herself, grew up with. Perhaps my granddaughters will value them as much as I do.
This review can also be found here.
Recommended by: Barbara Braxton, Teacher Librarian, New South Wales AUSTRALIA
See more of her recommendations:
500 Hats http://500hats.edublogs.org/
The Bottom Shelf http://thebottomshelf.edublogs.org/
