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Summary: Wonderful![.]
Review: This is a beautiful book full of color illustrations and faery lore. Both "Good" and "Bad" faeries are included in this
whimsical book as well as all kinds of information regarding the mystical characters. Find out how to name a faery, the different faery classifcations and more.
Rating:
Summary: Wonderful![.]
Review: This is a beautiful book full of color illustrations and faery lore. Both "Good" and "Bad" faeries are included in this
whimsical book as well as all kinds of information regarding the mystical characters. Find out how to name a faery, the different faery classifcations and more.
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Summary: Good Faeries/Bad faeries
Review: THIS IS A SPECTACULAR BOOK! I picked up this book one afternoon and could`ent take my nose out it! This is a great book for kids that really like fairies.Remember, everyone should have a copy!
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Summary: Worth whatever price they put on it!
Review: This is by far one of the most incredible books I've come across in years. My Grandmother picked it up one day and showed it to me; I was blown away. Each drawing is so detailed that you could spend hours looking at each one, and not have seen everything in it. If you love faries, fantsy art, magnificent drawings, or funny and informative stories, this is for you. The attention to detail is unbelievable. Pay whatever you must to make this part of your collection... you won't be sorry.
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Summary: Wonderful World of the Fae
Review: This is one of the most beautiful books I've ever bought. I can enjoy reading about these faeries over and over again. Beautiful illistrations and lovely tales of all of the fae, including some of the meanest.Imo
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Summary: I love Froud's work, but this is beyond my expectations!
Review: This one is... stunning. Unlike the original Faeries book 20 years ago, this one is primarily faeries as most people would think of them. The only difference is that Brian Froud makes them all so real, so beautiful, it's hard not to think we could just turn around and see them sitting next to us. I grew up having the Faeries book around and sure, it's been 20 years since that came out, but work of this caliber is rare and should never be rushed. Thank you Mr. Froud for your wondrous vision!
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Summary: Froud's magic enchantes us all -again!
Review: We've always known that Brian Froud is a magical illustrator, and he proves it yet again! The illustrations are so wonderful i cried the first time i looked at them, the text however could have been given abit more effort, but it is great as it is! I love the way the book is two books in one. When i ordered my book it wasn't yet published and i went everyday to the bookshop to see if it had arrived, in the end the bookstore people got curious about the book and ordered extra copies of the book to sell in the store, when they arrived they all sold out the same week! I really love this book, and as christmas is approaching: make a friend happy and buy him/her some magical Froudian faeries!! I have!
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Summary: A Wonderful Book
Review: When I first became interseted in fairies, I spoke to my friend about it, and she told me about this book. I wasn't really sure about it at first, but after I took it home and paged through it, looked at the wonderful pictures, and read the excellent descriptions, I realized what a gem this book really is!
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Summary: Froud is still my hero, but I didn't love the book
Review: When I first saw Brian Froud's artwork in the original (and far superior) Faeries book, I became heartsick for the fantasy world that he and Alan Lee had created. The froud illustrations were especially great- he seemed to have a delicate knack for line and a really subtle, balanced use of color. As an artist myself, he seemed to create the kind of drawings and paintings I always felt I should be doing-i don't know exactly how to convey this-it was fresh and new to me, yet strangely familiar. The extremely detailed, Richard Dadd like tapestry paintings were the most impressive, such as the "goblin market one", "knockers" or "faerie ways". the way he airbrushed a fairy's wing, the pinkness in a blue fairy's knees, the dark blue knuckles and fingertips of a goblin, all this was exactly what I had always felt, artistically! Here was an artist who was truly inspired and sensitive. So imagine my sad disappointment when, after waiting for three years, I saw "good faeries/bad faeries". To be sure, there are more than a handful of nice paintings in this one, although I think something of the subtlety in the originals had been lost in reproduction. But that does not excuse the rest. Half the illustrations look like things the artist had dashed off at the breakfast table while eating. A quick pencil sketch often fills up an entire page, and it is not even of the quality that you'd find in the first book. All the tightness of those sketches has deteriorated. I can appreciate looseness, but not sloppiness. One would think that Froud would have a better handle on the "bad faeries" section, but there are only a few impressive ones there. Over all, the book seemed like a couple really nice paintings but with many lackluster quickies dumped in as filler.
Please don't misunderstand me, these are only my opinions. There are a few glories in here, like "Gloominous Doom", "Laume" and "Queen of the Bad Faeries". There really are a few exquisite ones. But not enough. Maybe it's just because of my familiarity of old school froud, from "Land of Froud", "master snickup's cloak" and the first "Faeries", that I was so let down to find a book where half of it was aced out just to complete a volume.
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Summary: A Passionate Book of Colors.
Review: When I was on a vacation in PN, we stopped by a bookstore and there was a big book lying on the floor. I picked it up and saw it was about fairies! Since I love fairies and Myths I wanted to read it. But when I opened it I was Blinded by it's beautiful pictures, and I forgot about reading it and flipped through the book admiring it's illastrations.I didn't get to read it because it was time to leave and the library doesn't have it but I KNOW i will love it!
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