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Summary: i love it!
Review: EVER SENCE I SAW THE BOOK AT MY BROTHER'S GIRLFRIENDS HOUSE I LOVED IT! ITS A GREAT BOOK FROM YOUNG TO OLD! ITS SEAMS SO REAL! NOW I LOVE FEARIES! THE AUTHER'S WRTING MAKE ITS SO REALISTIC! I JUST ORDERED IT AND I CANT WATE FOR IT TO GET IN! WE HAVE LOOKED EVERY WHERE FOR THIS BOOK! THIS IS THE CHEEPIST PLACE AND EASYEST PLACE TO GET THIS BOOK! this is such a great book! every one should own it!
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Summary: My favourite book in our world!
Review: Ever since I grew up, I have beleived in faeries. Well, I grew up with this book! I have read Faeries around 50 times cover to cover since I was nine.( now I am 13) What I don't understand:why not put more photographs at the end? Faeries is very interesting and I would reccomend it to anyone who knows how to read.(and I have knowledge that young&old like it because my grandmother, my mother and I used to read it together) Brian Froud certainly captures the beauty of a mysterious world perfectly!
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Summary: The most incredible book in the history of writing!!!
Review: Faeries send you into a world of goblins and kelpies in the land of Faeries. The realism that Lee and Froud give the illustrations and text is fabulous and they do not lose the realities of faeries to popular belief; they don't include false delicate butterfly-winged creatures but miscievious and sometimes deadly tricksters. I highly recommend Faeries to anyone who has ever read a line and for those who haven't I pity greatly. BRAVO !!! MR. FROUD AND MR.LEE!!!
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Summary: Beautiful and Inspiring
Review: Faeries, like the creatures it tries to describe, is hard to classify. Pick it up - it's a large, solid, beautifully bound coffeetable book for coffeetables you've no intention on putting drinks on - and flip through it once and you'll see fantasy art that beautifully captures the otherworldly-yet-very-familiar nature of its subject matter. Perhaps some of it will look familiar, as the art from Faeries has been used in many places and set the trends that other fantasy artists now follow. Pick it up later and you'll notice text. Words. Stories, in unobtrusive print that is big enough to be nicely readable but cunningly placed to make sure the art has gotten your full attention before you do any reading. The words retell key sections of faerie lore and elucidate faerie etiquette and the polymorphic nature of these beings. The subject matter is not sugar-coated or Bowlderized as if for children, but treated with the reverence and respect due to stories that have survived numerous invasions, migrations, and changes in the dominant religion. These are hardy stories, hearty stories that have lived for longer than any of us and that will outlive us all. These are stories and works of art that can be nourishing, that can enrich and enliven like a thick hearty soup on a cold day and refresh like a crisp cool drink on a hot one. After going through this mighty book a time or two, your attention might be drawn to the names on the cover. Brian Froud is one of them, and he went on after this book to help make movies ("The Dark Crystal" and "Labyrinth") and make more books (some with the help of Terry Jones, like "Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book" and "The Goblin Companion: A Field Guide to Goblins"). Alan Lee is the other, and he went on to do cover illustrations for "The Lord of the Rings" that wound up becoming the definitive art for the movies. You might smile when you see them, and know hat anyone who saw this book before seeing any of those other things was in on the great secret about what those two can do, and if you get the book, you'll be in on it too.
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Summary: Beautiful and Inspiring
Review: Faeries, like the creatures it tries to describe, is hard to classify. Pick it up - it's a large, solid, beautifully bound coffeetable book for coffeetables you've no intention on putting drinks on - and flip through it once and you'll see fantasy art that beautifully captures the otherworldly-yet-very-familiar nature of its subject matter. Perhaps some of it will look familiar, as the art from Faeries has been used in many places and set the trends that other fantasy artists now follow. Pick it up later and you'll notice text. Words. Stories, in unobtrusive print that is big enough to be nicely readable but cunningly placed to make sure the art has gotten your full attention before you do any reading. The words retell key sections of faerie lore and elucidate faerie etiquette and the polymorphic nature of these beings. The subject matter is not sugar-coated or Bowlderized as if for children, but treated with the reverence and respect due to stories that have survived numerous invasions, migrations, and changes in the dominant religion. These are hardy stories, hearty stories that have lived for longer than any of us and that will outlive us all. These are stories and works of art that can be nourishing, that can enrich and enliven like a thick hearty soup on a cold day and refresh like a crisp cool drink on a hot one. After going through this mighty book a time or two, your attention might be drawn to the names on the cover. Brian Froud is one of them, and he went on after this book to help make movies ("The Dark Crystal" and "Labyrinth") and make more books (some with the help of Terry Jones, like "Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book" and "The Goblin Companion: A Field Guide to Goblins"). Alan Lee is the other, and he went on to do cover illustrations for "The Lord of the Rings" that wound up becoming the definitive art for the movies. You might smile when you see them, and know hat anyone who saw this book before seeing any of those other things was in on the great secret about what those two can do, and if you get the book, you'll be in on it too.
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Summary: At the turn of a page, and through the faerie veil..
Review: Float on the wings of a faerie, to a land that has existed for an eternity, and that will exist for eternities to come. Brian Froud and Alan Lee have created a marvelous book that weaves a magical tapestry about the reader, and won't let them go until the book is through with them! A perfect blending of typed and hand-written texts, and many differing styles of artwork help to make this volume a captivating sourcebook for lovers of the fae and light hearts everywhere! Colorful, richly drawn canvases reach out to the viewer to entrance them and hold them in the faerie world these two gentlemen speak so ellequently about. The combination of lovely prose, great sections of written verses and blurbs, and staggeringly beautiful, (and sometimes staggeringly jarring,) artwork make this book a true transportation device. Straight past the walls of reality and through the veils of the Enchanted World! I would recommend it to anyone with a free spirit, a grand imagination, and especially to someone who needs
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Summary: Amazing Fairies!!!
Review: Great reads! You've gotta love this amazing book and it is a treasure to cherish. All those marvellous pictures and drawings. It is clear as to why Brian Froud has got such a huge following. HIs art is smashing! I love it, i love it! It comes with accurate descritions of each fairy and it is worth spending hours tucked up in bed and just basking in the joy of the book. It is fab!
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Summary: Faeries of all shapes and dimensions!
Review: I absolutely loved this book and I hope you read it too
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Summary: Lovin' thhhisss awesome book
Review: I am 15 years of age and I absolutelly LOVE this book. The illustraations are some of the most beautiful I've seen in my short life. This is a great book if you are into all of the magical, mystical things of the universe, or, if you just like to learn about other cultures. Or, even if you just want to dress as one in this year's Renasance festival. It even tells you how to be protected from faeries. I'm lovin' this book!
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Summary: fisrt real look into faeries, good and bad
Review: I first found this book in thge sci-fi section of my local bookstore, I had seen the cartoon short based on this book and I was interested in the what the book was like. I paged through it thinking it would be a well illustrated tolkien like story, like the animated version. Then after looking through about half a page I was hooked, I couldn't put it down, I stoped reading when the store was closed and the checkout clerk forced the book from my hands, two days later I was back with the price of the book in my wallet. This was the first book I had ever read that actually talked about the evil, dark faeries that your childhood storybooks never talk about, like redcaps, and the unseelie court. I have read this book cover-to-cover several times and I am still finding things in some of the illustrations I hadn't noticed before. If your interested by this book, get yourself a copy of the animated version.
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