This was a cute book for children of all ages. Enjoyed it immensely and would recommend to anyone looking for a good read.

Do Fairies Bring the Spring? by Liza Gardner Walsh, illustrated by Hazel Mitchell is an absolutely delightful and charming picture book about fairies and spring. This book has wormed its way right into my heart! Now, I will admit that I love fairies anyway, but this book is absolutely wonderful!

The text rhymes and is nice and lyrical. The pictures are just beautiful, engaging, and full of little surprises. If you really take the time to look through all the pictures, you'll see little ladybugs, snails, bees, other little bugs, and woodland creatures. There's a decent amount of diversity within the fairy ranks, including a boy fairy, and our main fairy is black.

I cannot say enough about the illustrations! I'm absolutely charmed by them. They're delightful! One page talks about using tiny brushes and oil pastels to paint the flowers and some of the fairies are holding little oil pastels that they're clearly using to color the flowers. It's just lovely.

The text is very lyrical. A few times the rhyming words were stretching it a bit, but they never broke the lyrical pace and flow. It's also obvious that the illustrator really paid attention to the text when she made the illustrations.

I highly recommend this book for any fairy lover in your life! It's just delightful!

DO FAIRIES BRING THE SPRING? written by Lisa Gardner Walsh and illustrated by Hazel Mitchell is an attractive colorful rhyming children's book. There are little fairies of various nationalities and tiny animals, insects and plants. The colors are beautiful, bright and cheerful. At the end of the book is a list of ways to encourage fairies in the spring such as planting, feeding the birds, fixing up fairy houses and laughing and frolicking in nature.

'So as bright petals open and spring blankets the land
can you imagine a fairy's little hand
helping things grow to make all of us smile
and reminding us to sit and enjoy nature a while?'

Thanks to NetGalley and Down East Books for a digital ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
5⭐️.

(I received an ARC from the NETGALLEY)

RATING: 3.5 STARS

Do fairies bring the spring with all that they do? A great story for those children who love fairies and fantasy. I enjoyed the images and that this book reads like a poem.

What a delightful, whimsical read is Do Fairies Bring the Spring? by Liza Gardner Walsh and Illustrated by Hazel Mitchell. My grandson and I enjoyed this book even though the six-year-old insisted it is a book his sister would enjoy more. Perhaps, but I can’t say that I agree with him. Any lover of plants, Springtime and has experienced the joy of just being able to get back outside after a cold winter would appreciate this book.

The illustrations add to make the writing in this quick reading book come to life. The questioning style of the wording was a wonderful way to guide the very young and the not so young, like me, to thinking of the magical season of Spring. While it may be available digital, I think this is one that would make a perfect hardcover copy gift. With the questions and details in the illustrations, it is sure to become a child’s favorite.

An adorable children's rhyming book that has beautiful illustrations. Little girls will especially like the fairy theme. Sweet. Book would make an excellent gift for mother's expecting a Spring arrival.

I had this book sent to my kids kindle and they absolutely loved reading it together! My daughter in particular loved it.

"When all the blossoms of spring begin to appear,
Do you think there might be fairies near?"

Thus begins this sweet book, written in rhyme, that exposes the young reader to the magic of fairies who wake up the sleepy plants from their long winter's nap and add vibrant colours to the world as it comes alive. Questions are posed to get the reader thinking about fairies and how they interact with nature and help create new growth and beauty for everyone to enjoy.

"Do the fairies pull out all the stubborn shoots and brush out winter's tangled roots?"

"Are they huddled around in their fairy house towns, planning on ways to fill the bare ground?"

"Do they use tiny brushes and oil pastels to paint crocuses, lilacs, and daffodils?"

This charming sequel to "Where Do Fairies Go When It Snows" along with the brilliant illustrations will have your child out in the garden looking for hidden fairies that just might appear and help their own gardens to grow. I am sure upon reading the book kids will have a greater appreciation for the outdoors. Highly recommended.

This children’s book will appeal to the little girls who are already fond of the magical world of fairies. The illustrations are stunning, colourful and full of joy. The wow factor has definitely been achieved. It is a sweet story filled with rhymes and life lessons. It teaches the child to take care of nature, the plants and flowers and all the creatures visiting them. It is a story of patience and care, about life and hope of future growth.

It is a beautifully written, poetic and visually captivating children’s book.

I read this book with my 10 yo girl and we both loved, loved, loved the illustrations in this book…they are cute, colorful, vibrant, and just so ‘aaaw’some! While the text itself did not get our attention as much, the message conveyed is sweet and important, and the almost rhyming prose takes us through what the fairies are maybe doing to help plants and vice versa. One line that caught my attention was one that wondered if either (fairies and/or plants) would vanish without the other. By extending the concept of fairies to us, we can work on how important conservation is.

Regardless of my attempts I could not get this to open.

The illustrations are simple and fun but the story did not entice me to give it a second read or recommend it.

I enjoyed this one. Both the art and the poetry were nice.