Backyard Fairies is a quite short book of about 15 pages with brief, rhyming text and dense, vibrant watercolour illustrations. It might make a good, quick goodnight story for a child, especially as it ends with an illustration of a girl lying in bed.

I read a digital advance copy of #BackyardFairies from the publisher via #NetGalley.

This story deals with the imagination of children. When they are outside do they see and hear things that might be fairies, imps etc. Do they hear them at night. The little girl in the story ventures out at night following the music to find the fairies, but has not such luck. Can she still believe? A cute, simple story. I was not impressed with the illustrations though, they didn't seem as soft as I would have thought a fairy story would be depicted as.