Fairy Island: A Field Diary

by Laura C. Martin, Cameron Martin, Laura C. Martin

Book Overview

Noted nature crafter Laura Martin has created a fantasy for fairy-lovers. Its conceit involves a botanist, Christine Newkirk, who has discovered five tiny houses on a magical island, all made from natural materials on a perfect fairy scale--the houses are no more than 18 inches high, beds are 2 x 3 inches, shoes are 1 inch long. She documents her finds in a field diary she is keeping for her granddaughter. The woodland cottage is filled with bent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579124550
• ISBN13: 9781579124557
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

delectable

grab your hot cocoa and snuggle up with this book and your favorite blankie. i'm not a faerie fanatic but could not resist this book. the level of creativity shown here is overwhelming and you will find yourself 'ooooing' and 'aaaahing' and giggling at the turn of every page. lovely, lovely book. oh, and if you're a faerie, these two ladies are the ones you want if you're doing any redecorating.

An excellent primer for learning to 'SEE'

I bought this book for my four year old daughter, and while perspective is not a skill she's yet mastered enough to fully appreciate what she's looking at, she already adores it. This is a book that will keep on giving. It's as whimsical as you would expect, but it also teaches something to the reader, very subtly, about having the eye of an artist. It's a primer for creativity, a lesson in appreciating beauty in the world around you, and it does all this ever so charmingly. A must-have for the creative type's library.

For All Who Love Tiny Things

Remember The Borrowers or Miss Bianca or A Cricket in Times Square? Anyone who loved those childhood classics will fall in love with this book. The concept of little folk creating a home with found objects is so intriguing. The authors feature as observers in this book which combines color photos, hand lettered text and sketchbook-like notes. It reminds me a bit of Gnomes which was such a hit 20 years ago or even the artwork in the Edwardian Lady's Sketchbook. I read in our local paper about a family that recreated some of the scenes from this book in their own garden. The children loved gardening in miniature and finding small things to put in the fairy house. What a fun idea.

For fans of the wee folk

This is a very charming book for fairy fans as well as gardeners. The story is told from the point of view of the writer's grandmother and is a lovely story to read to a child or grandchild. I enjoyed it very much.

Amazing!

I bought this book for my young daughter (age 5), and found that everyone including her was enthralled by the details inside, this book is a definite must for Fairy lovers, and fairies looking for interior design ideas. My daughter now wants to make fairy houses for the local population here.