The Fairy Ring: Or Elsie and Frances Fool the World

The Fairy Ring: Or Elsie and Frances Fool the World

by Mary Losure
The Fairy Ring: Or Elsie and Frances Fool the World

The Fairy Ring: Or Elsie and Frances Fool the World

by Mary Losure

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Overview

The enchanting true story of a girl who saw fairies, and another with a gift for art, who concocted a story to stay out of trouble and ended up fooling the world.

Frances was nine when she first saw the fairies. They were tiny men, dressed all in green. Nobody but Frances saw them, so her cousin Elsie painted paper fairies and took photographs of them “dancing” around Frances to make the grown-ups stop teasing. The girls promised each other they would never, ever tell that the photos weren’t real. But how were Frances and Elsie supposed to know that their photographs would fall into the hands of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? And who would have dreamed that the man who created the famous detective Sherlock Holmes believed ardently in fairies
— and wanted very much to see one? Mary Losure presents this enthralling true story as a fanciful narrative featuring the original Cottingley fairy photos and previously unpublished drawings and images from the family’s archives. A delight for everyone with a fondness for fairies, and for anyone who has ever started something that spun out of control.
Back matter includes source notes and a bibliography.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780763659653
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Publication date: 03/27/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Lexile: 940L (what's this?)
File size: 6 MB
Age Range: 10 - 14 Years

About the Author

Mary Losure has worked as a field botanist's assistant, family farmer, and staff reporter for Minnesota Public Radio. A longtime contributor to National Public Radio, she co-founded the independent production company Round Earth Media. The Fairy Ring is her first book for children. She lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

When I was a child, I read mostly fantasy. When I grew up, I discovered that nonfiction books don’t have to be just facts —they can be true stories that read like fiction.

Now I write that kind of nonfiction for kids.

Isaac the Alchemist is the story of young Isaac Newton, whose childhood search for magic grew into a truly magical career.

Wild Boy is about a real wild boy trying to find a home in the human world.

In The Fairy Ring, two young girls fool Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the world’s most famous detective, into believing they’ve taken photographs of real fairies.

I still love Narnia, but you can’t go there. You can travel the real world. I want kids to know that amazing things can happen there, too.

Three Things You May Not Know About Me:

I once lived on a farm and had two pet goats.

Long ago, I played ice hockey for the University of Vermont. Ours was the first women’s team in the school’s long history of the sport. Some of us had only figure skates. At games, we used the men’s practice jerseys because we had no uniforms of our own. Today’s women’s hockey teams play much better than we ever did. But we had fun, and I learned to skate backward.

I’ve just learned how to play something called the 12-bar blues on the ukulele. It reminds me of the mathematical patterns Isaac Newton discovered about the universe. Once you get it, you can play bazillions of tunes. It’s kind of like . . . magic.

The real world is an amazing place.

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