The Enchanted Forest

by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

Other authorsGrenbry Outhwaite
Hardcover, 1960

Status

Available

Call number

823/.2

Tags

picture book, lutins, australian, fairies, fairy tales & fables, fiction, children, primary school

Genres

Collection

Children's Lit & Picture Books

Publication

Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1981, c1960.

User reviews

LibraryThing member MeditationesMartini
The story is cute--I like about kids' stories that they don't have to have a powerful symbology, they just have to evoke what it would feel like to have fairy wings and eat magic pies and ride a butterfly chariot and get pinched and prodded by goblins but get away okay in the end, and as long as
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 they don't do anything too racist you're golden (seriously, what the hell, British Empire Kids)--but what really makes this is the beautiful, gossamer-light yet finely and sharply edged drawings, where everything is cloaked in a twee beauty that sets the heart to dancing.
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Language

English

Original publication date

c.1960, 1981

Physical description

105 p.; 27 cm

ISBN

0207144079 / 9780207144073

Local notes

A beautiful fairy story picture-book with 31 delightful illustrations - b&w and watercolour.

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