Fairy Spell: How Two Girls Convinced the World That Fairies Are Real

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Synopsis
In 1917, in Cottingley, England, a girl named Elsie took a picture of her younger cousin, Frances. Also in the photo was a group of fairies, fairies that the girls insisted were real. Through a remarkable set of circumstances, that photograph and the ones that followed came to be widely believed as evidence of real fairies. It was not until 1983 that the girls, then late in life, confessed that the Cottingley Fairies were a hoax.

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. Exquisitely illustrated with art and the original fairy photographs.

Copyright:
2017

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
40 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780544699540
Related ISBNs:
9780544699489
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Marc Tyler Nobleman, Eliza Wheeler
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Children's Books, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies
Grade Levels:
Third grade
Reading Age:
4–7
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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