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Available
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Publication
Little, Brown Young Readers (1997), Edition: 1st, 32 pages
Description
One Halloween night a fairy child befriends a human child and together they explore each other's worlds but neither wants to give up his or her own home.
User reviews
LibraryThing member LeesyLou
This is a beautifully illustrated, adorable tale told in verse. It tells of a human girl and fairy boy who meet and visit each others' worlds. Realizing they each belong among their own kind, they resolve nonetheless to maintain their friendship and interaction by exchanging gifts and meeting
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periodically. Their relationship begins in childhood and extends into their old age. Enjoy! Show Less
LibraryThing member SJeanneM
This was a good book that was the story of a friendship between a fairie and an earth girl. They show each other the world they live in and they each ask the other to stay in their world which of course in the end each declines. They find a way to remain friends throughout their life which is the
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real story here - a lifelong friendship. Also good book to illustrate to children that asult men and women can be friends without getting married because at least mine seem to have difficulty with that concept. Show Less
LibraryThing member sweetdissident
Beautiful poetic text, and magical illustrations. Is friendship possible for people from two different worlds? Read and see. . .
LibraryThing member nmhale
A girl and a faerie boy discover each other on Hallow's Eve and become fast friends. He takes her to his faerie hall below and tries to convince her to stay; she then takes him to spend a day in the world of men, on a farm, and presses him to stay instead. Yet both miss their true homes, and at
A simple picture book tale that is reminiscent of Town Mouse, Country Mouse - with a light touch of the supernatural - this is yet another story that Yolen weaves with her lyrical language. The poem is as beautiful as the story of two friends torn between different worlds. The accompanying illustrations are detailed and have an ethereal quality suited to the subject matter. The elven world is filled with wistful blues and silvers, while the man's world is soaked in warm earth colors.
When I was young, I used to dream of finding some secret passage to a faerie world, and this book played upon those old buried desires. Yet it has a comical counterpoint in the practical, when the girl makes the faerie spend a day in our world, milking cows and cleaning sheds. The story is a balance between play and work, night and day, magic and reality ... a contrast of opposites that come together as friends in the end.
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last come to an agreement that they will remain friends and visit each other faithfully, but live in the worlds that they each call home.A simple picture book tale that is reminiscent of Town Mouse, Country Mouse - with a light touch of the supernatural - this is yet another story that Yolen weaves with her lyrical language. The poem is as beautiful as the story of two friends torn between different worlds. The accompanying illustrations are detailed and have an ethereal quality suited to the subject matter. The elven world is filled with wistful blues and silvers, while the man's world is soaked in warm earth colors.
When I was young, I used to dream of finding some secret passage to a faerie world, and this book played upon those old buried desires. Yet it has a comical counterpoint in the practical, when the girl makes the faerie spend a day in our world, milking cows and cleaning sheds. The story is a balance between play and work, night and day, magic and reality ... a contrast of opposites that come together as friends in the end.
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LibraryThing member flying_monkeys
A lifelong friendship between a human and a faerie: they envied each other's worlds but had enough self-awareness to know they didn't want to abandon their own for the other. Full page illustrations filled with seasonal colors amplified the warmth of the story.
Recommended as a story to show kids
4.5 stars
Recommended as a story to show kids
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that people from different worlds can come together, share their culture, and build lasting friendships/ relationships without having to sacrifice their homes or who they are in the process.4.5 stars
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LibraryThing member lissabeth21
I just Love the lyrical beautiful sweetness of this book. Perfect for fall bedtime.
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
32 p.; 10.25 inches
ISBN
0316968978 / 9780316968973
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