The Mystery of The Fool and The Vanisher
From the creator of FAIRIE-ALITY, an eerie tale-within-a-tale weaves stunning photographs into a thrilling, time-shifting mystery that leaves readers questioning what is real.Some say the English Downs are haunted by fairy creatures — and that those who find a flint stone with a hole through it...
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From the creator of FAIRIE-ALITY, an eerie tale-within-a-tale weaves stunning photographs into a thrilling, time-shifting mystery that leaves readers questioning what is real.Some say the English Downs are haunted by fairy creatures — and that those who find a flint stone with a hole through it can look into the fairies' realm. It is just such a stone that leads photographer David Ellwand on a dark journey to the past, one that starts with a musty wooden chest and a nineteenth-century journal and ends with a disappearance as sudden as a vintage camera's flash. In this journal-within-a-journal, illustrated by Ellwand's exquisite photographs, lies a tale of archaeologists and fairies, human hubris and otherworldly revenge, the magic of the natural world and the mystery of the imagination.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780763620967 (0763620963)
Publish date: September 9th 2008
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Pages no: 104
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Paranormal,
Juvenile,
Fairies,
Mystery,
Art,
Picture Books,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels
The book included so many elements I love: art photography... mysterious woods... hidden, possibly magical, objects... archaeology... Victorian fairy lore... collage...Yet somehow it managed to be pretty mediocre. It starts off well, with Ellwand's misty tree photos, which are really quite lovely an...
The big draw (and, really, highlight) of The Mystery of the Fool and the Vanisher will probably be the photographs, bring the reader through misty woods that look and feel haunted by... something. Here, it's fae that watch the woods. This is in the class of so many other faux-historical books that "...