'This recounting of a fanciful, enchanting fraud will leave younger children guessing until the end, and many more readers will embrace the suspension of disbelief.' - Publishers Weekly 'A fascinating introduction to one of the greatest hoaxes of all time, deftly pitched to elementary-age children.' - Kirkus Reviews Exquisitely illustrated with art and the original fairy photographs. Their take is an extraordinary slice of history, from a time when anything in a photograph was assumed to be fact and it was possible to trick an eager public into believing something magical.

It was not until 1983 that the girls, then late in life, confessed that the Cottingley Fairies were a hoax. Through a remarkable set of circumstances, that photograph and the ones that followed came to be widely believed as evidence of real fairies. Also in the photo was a group of fairies, fairies that the girls insisted were real. In 1917, in Cottingley, England, a girl named Elsie took a picture of her younger cousin, Frances. Exquisitely illustrated with art by Eliza Wheeler as well as the original photos taken by the girls. Full color.īook Synopsis The true story of British cousins who fooled the world for more than 60 years with a remarkable hoax, photographs of 'real' fairies. Exquisitely illustrated with art by Wheeler as well as the original photos taken by the girls. About the Book The true story of British cousins who fooled the world for more than 60 years with a remarkable hoax, photographs of 'real' fairies.

Fairy Spell by Marc Tyler Nobleman