Good Faeries / Bad Faeries

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

This was written by Brian Froud, best known for his work in "The Dark Crystal" and "Labyrinth".

It is a "field book" of sorts, a pretend manual if you will (like fantastic beasts and where to find them "by" Newt Scamander - J.K. Rowling). 
It's filled to the brim with illustrations and sketches made by the author, he actually created many of the drawings before writing about the different fairies that "exist" in the World, and how to deal with/handle them. 
I recently purchased "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - The illustrated edition", but it's in transit and won't arrive for a while. 

Then I remembered I still had this book in my collection. 

When I was between 8 and 10 years old, I saw it at a book store and thought the paintings were magical, they're absolutely gorgeous. 
But at the time my parents couldn't buy it, it was very expensive. 
Also, we could only find an English edition so they weren't sure I'd be able to read it.

In the end I couldn't forget about it, so months later, for the first time ever I asked for a book for my birthday, my parents surprised me with it in the morning.

I still have all sorts of happy emotions connected to this book, and the fact that it has something in common with Harry Potter (the first book that really got me into reading), makes me super happy.
So I wanted to read it again whilst waiting for Harry's "school manual" to arrive.

I love how it's divided by good and bad fairies and how if you want to read one you have to switch the book around to do so.

I always assumed my favorite part of the book were the good fairies, I couldn't wait to finish the bad fairies part and flip the book over to see the good fairies (a gimmick that I felt was amazing and that I had a lot of fun with as a child, always making sure to leave the good faeries part of the book up, because you know, bad fairies are bad).

However, Bad Faeries is definitely my favorite part now, mostly because the text is more humorous in that half of the book.

With silly mischievous fairies such as The Computer Glitch, Gurney the Face Puller, Bad Hair Day Faery, and Melsh Dick (whose  duty is to protect unripe nuts), as well as some serious fairies, such as Allergy Faery, Anxious Annie, and Death, just to name a few.

But there will always be a special place in my heart for the good fairies, some of my favorites are the Dawn Faery, the Faery of Transformation, and the Faery of Focused Attention.

As well as, of course, the Faery of Pure Joy:

The first thing that attracted me to this book was the illustrations, the thing that attracts me to it now is the text accompanied by the sketches, drawings, and paintings.

I recommend this book to all who like fairies and who have a good sense of humor!

I'll leave you with a couple of my favorite illustrations,

Love, Mariana