Fairy Houses Series

We all really loved the ideas in ties book and can't wait to go on a Forest hike and build our own Fairy Houses! My only complaint would be the image quality. Every image was blurry... Bad copy camera work?!? ( )

Accompanying her parents to a small Maine island for a week's vacation, Kristen discovers a wonderful world of tiny woodland fairy houses, and is inspired to create one of her own. Checking back on it regularly, she adds improvements - berries to tempt the fairies to take up residence, a little pool of water to refresh them - always hoping that she might catch a glimpse of the elusive creatures. At first, all she sees are the woodland animals who enjoy the treats she sets out. And then, on the last day of vacation, something extraordinary happens...

I think that I may just be the wrong audience for this one, because although I can see the appeal of Tracy Kane's Fairy Houses, and imagine that young readers who love the idea of fairies, and are convinced of their reality, will really take it to heart, I just wasn't all that impressed. I liked the message of respecting nature, that can be found in the story, and I liked the idea of building little fairy houses from organic, non-living materials, but the story and artwork just didn't do much for me. Still, I have one of the companion volumes - Fairy Houses ... Everywhere! - checked out, and its photographs of actual fairy houses may be more my style. We'll see... ( )

http://www.greenmanreview.com/book/book_kane_fairyhouses.html ( )