Rating: 
Summary: As Good as It Gets
Review: This is one of my all-time favorites. As the title suggests, it is a true faerie tale. In this case a human-child and faerie-child chance to meet and each tries to persuade the other to cross the divide, each making an experimental sojourn. Very well illustrated by one of our favorite illustrators--Jane Dyer--and written in a very nice lyric verse. Here's where the girl declines the offer of the Prince.She looked around the faerie hall
Beneath the hollow hill.
And all the glamour round her spun
To bend her to his will.
But with a sigh, she shook her head.
"That's not by bread
And drink," she said.
"I cannot on your food be fed
And still my needs fulfill." There are 28 pages, 14 sets of facing pages with one of these lyrics on the left with a small picture above. Opposite is a full-page illustration, many of which are among the very best quality in Children's Literature I've seen. Sadly, the hardback is no longer in print, but good used copies are usually available. There's no new-age nonsense in this book, just good old-fashioned mythopoetics.
Rating:
Summary: A delight to read to children
Review: Where do children learn the love of reading ? By being read to of course, Child of faerie, Child of earth is perfect to read aloud. The illustrations are gorgeous and the rhymes that accompany the pictures are sweet and lyrical. The old story is here, the meeting of mortal and faerie - this is literature for young children at its best. And it's a delight to read this to children ! Highly recommended
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