Fairy House Handbook

The biggest rule in fairy house building: "fairy houses must be made from materials found in nature".This sweet book is attractively arranged into nine sections that will take you and your little fairy lover from scouting for just the right place for your fairy house to gathering materials from nature, building it and then attracting fairies. Cute. It encourages children to explore nature, to plan, to create charts, drawings, organizational sketches. It shows them how to make stained glass windows for their fairy houses using twigs and sea glass, and how to expand on their house once it is finished.It's printed on wonderful card stock paper with large and detailed photos. and it's the perfect size for little hands and laps. About 7" by 8". I love the poems before each chapter, too.It's a thoughtfully created book that my grandchildren and I will have hours of fun with.

I purchased three books on fairy gardens as a starting point for two of my daughters and I work together to create fairy gardens in our yards next spring. I let each of them select one of the books for themselves. Neither gave this book a second glance after seeing the other two. As I looked at all three, I had to agree. Overall it is a good book with good photos and writing, but it visually appears text heavy due to the large size and vertical spacing of the text. Although I love to read and have made a successful living writing, for something that ultimately is as visual as a fairy garden, I am more attracted to the photos of potential materials, and sequential photos of various gardens being built with the text supporting the photos, rather than photos supporting the text as in this book. However, I have read it twice already and have made notes about things I really liked init.

I got this for my niece, who is 6 and had wanted to build a fairy house when she came to visit me last summer (I live in the redwoods, so of course there are a lot of faeries around). I like the way it is written; the tone is good, the explanations are good. I was a little underwhelmed by some of the photos and the creativity of some of the houses. They do give good advice on materials to use and how to attract fairy folk.

I read this book and passed it along to my daughter and her friends and my friends. We are now planning on a party get-together to build fairy houses. The glossary at the back of the book provided some new information also regarding the "good people". I also felt that the author did a good job dispelling many of the myths regarding fairies, etc. I think this is a fun and positive activity to do with anyone of any age. Thank you for taking the time write the book, Liza.

This is a very cute book, but I didn't realize the appropriate age range. My daughter is almost 5 and she lost interest after 3 pages. Its unfortunate because she is enthralled with the concept of building fairy houses, and fairies in general. I thought she'd love this book, but its really more for older girls....maybe 7 to 9 age. I wish it was written in a more magical, imaginative, captivating way.

This book is absolutely terrific...a real treasure for ANY age...especially if you believe in Fairy's!!...and who doesn't :)The illustrations are stunning...I will be giving it to my Granddaughter for Christmas (age 7)...I am certain she will LOVE IT!!

I bought this for my 4 year old since she loves fairies. It has some great examples to look at, but she is too young to sit and read through the book with me. I'm still happy to have it in our library, but I would advise a parent to get this for an older child.

A sweet book that will be a childhood treasure. A great guide to fairy houses for my children, with inspiring pictures. Great ideas and construction tips for everything a fairy house might need, down to the stain glass window. The best part is we have to go hunting for our supplies outdoors, nothing to be bought in the stores. Turn off the tv and get outside with your young ones, they will treasure the time and the book, and surely share it with their children too.

A very pretty book with loads of inspiration for creating your fairy garden. Sold as a book for children but as a 'child like' 61 year old I am busy making my first fairy garden and having so much joy doing it! This book is full of beautiful ideas and little fairy facts and snippets of poetry, highly recommended !

Not a craft book OK to introduce nature to kids