Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Journal
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781556709043 (1556709048)
Publish date: April 1st 1999
Publisher: Stewart Tabori & Chang
Pages no: 112
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Paranormal,
Humor,
Fairies,
Art,
Picture Books,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Mythology
Series: Lady Cottington
The story of a victorian young lady's adventures with fairies. She collects impressions of the fairies in her diary. Amusing but very slight, really not for children. I like how the handwriting develops over time.
I just today remembered that this book existed. I read the whole thing standing in a used book store one afternoon shortly after it came out, and was more than a little disgusted by it. The art is lovely, but it was the concept that I found bothersome. Why? Because, yes, as an adult - I still ...
I came across this a few years ago when a friend gave me a loan of her copy. To be honest, from what I can remember, there's not a lot to it. The illustrations were wonderful and the text raised quite a few chuckles from me at the time.More a stocking filler for Christmas than anything else, reall...
I'm all crunchy and irritated with this book, and I think I have to sit down and be bitter for a bit before it comes clear. It's been calling to me in the children's section of the local used book store, with it's funny sight-gags and hand-written calligraphy. Written by Terry Jones! Art by Brian Fr...
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