This, is a fantasy novel I wish i'd have had the chance to read as a child. It contains an innate illustrious draw, the sisters world, combined with the dialogue, and the illustrations whimsical elements, tells the story effectively. The entire construction was wonderful, and I appreciate the authors narrative style, and well as the world and character building - specifically when accompanied by the illustrations.

Extraordinary story about a magical forest seen only by children. After the children are taking pictures of the fairies the adults are more interested about the forest, but the magical creatures do not appear for them. I find the illustrations magnificent.
''This is the story, narrated by Elsie herself, of the true events.''
Thank you Netgalley and the author for this lovely copy.

If I can be honest, something that is missing from this book is.... that I need it to be longer. I feel like it's happening quite fast. I just feel like I need it to be more detail.
But, I seriously love how this book based on a true events. I always appreciate story that is inspired by true events. The illustrations are adorable, and would make a lovely collection in your home :)

The Cottingley Fairies is a book I wish I had been able to read as a small child. Imaginative, short, and yet full circle. The whimsical illustrations draw the reader into the sisters' world, and the accompanying text is minimal but tells the story well. I had heard of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's involvement with the Cottingley Fairy pictures, but would never have thought to look for a book telling the story for children! It was just adorable and I think will be a wonderful addition to any library for children.

I also appreciated the note at the end of the book, clarifying the actual known facts of the story. Very intriguing!

The Cottingley Fairies is a classic story that I remember hearing about this true story behind the tale several years ago. Although it turned out the girls made everything up, it's still a lovely story nonetheless. The book itself is a retelling of the tale as if it were true, which is completely okay with me.

The illustrations are very lovely, and drawn in what is quickly becoming one of my favorite styles.

This book is short and sweet, probably a good bedtime story for a young child. (I even read it with a Celtic cradle song in the background and it matched perfectly!)

The story is exactly everything you’ve heard about the Cottingley Fairies and nothing more; it doesn’t verge away from that or elaborate further. It even mentions Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fascination with the subject.

The illustrations are gentle and sweet, with a rough-around-the-edges childlike quality to them. I felt they help to portray the story as the children saw it, since it describes them drawing, coloring, and cutting the fairies out of paper. It almost feels like Elsie herself drew the pictures.

I would recommend this to very small children who would like to find fairies in the trees.

In the early days of photography, in the mid 1800s, two little girls took photos of what they said, were fairies in their garden. An perhaps because photography was so new, or perhaps because people just wanted to believe, everyone thought they were real, and come to the gardens to see for themselves.

The girls never admitted that they had made up the fairies. And in the book, they insist that the reason they made paper fairies and photographed them was because the real fairies wouldn't stay still long enough

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And OK story, but told as though what the children said was true, about the cut-out faries.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

An excellently illustrated and intriguing look at one of the world's most interesting stories of fairies in the woods. A welcome addition to any classroom.

What a beautiful retelling of the infamous story. The illustrations are stunning and the tale doesn’t assume you already know. It’s approach is fair, playful and charming.

In the 1910s, two cousins in West Yorkshire, England became famous after releasing photographs of what they claimed to be real fairies. Many people were tricked into believing the girls, including – infamously – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes fame.

It was decades before one of the women involved admitted that the pictures were faked; the other maintained until her death that while four were fake, the fifth and final one was real.

I remember learning about these “fairies” as a child, but the fact they were fake was never in question.

Any author of a children’s book on this topic is going to have to make the decision: do you present facts, or do you go along with the assertion that the fifth image really was of fairies?

Ana Sender has chosen to finish her book with the possibility fairies do, in fact, exist, and that the girls really photographed them.

A smart choice? A silly one? Coming from someone who never believed in Santa, I’m probably not the best one to judge…

Sender’s take on the “Cottingley Fairies” uses childlike illustrations, which will appeal to some readers, while others will prefer something more magical for the subject matter. I’ve noticed a trend in this sort of illustration in recent children’s books.

Unfortunately, my review copy was disastrous. In ebook form, it began halfway through the book, the text didn’t appear until the midway point, and I was glad there wasn’t a lot of it to decipher the order of!

As always, buy books for younger readers in paper form.

Wrapped up fantasy and perfect for a wide range of readers, I would gladly add this book to my classroom shelf. Imaginative!

It's a big well done to this book – seriously, the words 'well' and 'done' might as well be in upper case. This combines mysticism, fantasy and history, and never excludes one from the other. The real world facts are that two girls got to be famous for being photographed quite winsomely alongside fairies – and only admitted in their dotage that the fabulous beasts were made of card and pinned in place. But one of the ladies alleged permanently that the pictures were inspired by real events and real encounters with the little folk. This book takes that as the truth – that the real fairies were too busy blowing raspberries at camera (and even, in fact, mooning) for decent images to be made. So the girls had to resort to fabrication. Whatever the case, this picture book – you seldom get more than a couple of sentences per spread – opens the young audience up to that world. Discuss it with them and you may well find your young companion privy to the world of the fairies – but will that be for real, or only through the pages of fiction? I could have wished for a slightly better design, as some images and faces aren't the most attractive, but this really does work. It's fantasy and fact combined (OK, perhaps it's only fact – these pages demand you think the jury is still out) and it's really very pleasant indeed. A strong four stars.

I first read about the Cottingley Fairy hoax some time during elementary school, and I did so with utter fascination, because even though I knew the girls involved had debunked their own story long ago, I still found it delightfully creepy. There was just something about those pictures... And of course I couldn't believe how well-drawn those paper clippings were! I loved the illustrations accompanying this recount of the case, and how it interwove the actual events with an alternative supernatural truth. I just don't think that a child without prior knowledge of the fake fairy encounters would appreciate this cute book as much? Or maybe, on the contrary, it's going to give rise to another generation of fae-obsessed kids, who knows.

*thank you to Netgalley and North South Books Inc. for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review*

2 stars.

This was just OK. The story was told well enough for little kids to understand. The fact that the illustrations were drawn in a childlike way would be either a hit or miss for you. For me, i didn't really like them so much but I do believe other people would actually prefer this style. I don't really have much to say about this as I just didnt connect with it. But as I said, I can see why some children would like it. Just wasnt for me so much and my little niece probably wouldn't like it as much either. I'm not saying it is a bad book though, just not one I'd read again.

I just wasn't a fan of this one. With a book like this, I expected more magical illustrations. Instead, these looked like the scribbles that I used to do when I was a kid, down to the uneven coloured-pencil fills and that weird overlap darkening you often get with markers. Some of the pictures looked more amateurish than others, which led to the book feeling kind of uneven.

The story fell sort of flat for me, too. Arthur Conan Doyle comes off looking rather stupid for believing and pushing the narrative so hard. (If you've ever seen the original photos, you'll probably agree that it's pretty obvious they're fake.) The fact that two little girls were able to fool so many people could've made for an interesting story, but that's not the direction this story took. In this book, the fairies were real all along, and while the girls did take photos of fake paper fairies, they admitted to their deceit (unlike it real life, where they kept up the charade for decades).

The subject matter is interesting, but the execution just didn't work for me here.