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Drop Everything, and Let’s Run Away with Ernst Kreidolf’s Flower Fairies

Some stories deserve to be told in a whisper. Tales of hidden flower kingdoms on the edge of a river bank, where caterpillars dance with apple blossoms and fairies fly on butterfly wings. Such are the tales woven by 19th century children’s book pioneer Ernst Kreidolf, whose meticulous watercolours fleshed out the richest fantasy worlds…

Two Girls Who Tricked the World: The Case of the Cottingley Fairies

One Saturday afternoon in July 1917, Elsie Wright borrowed her father’s camera and set off with her cousin, returning half an hour later claiming to have photographed a group of fairies they played with in the wood. Elsie, aged 16, and her 9-year-old cousin Frances Griffiths, claimed the magical creatures lived in the woods around the…

Best Dad Ever builds a Tree in his Daughter’s Bedroom

My own Dad is of course the best ever and too he built my brother and I a top-notch treehouse in the garden when we were kids. But I wasn’t quite clever enough to ask him to build me a treehouse inside my bedroom… While doing my morning coffee browse of Reddit.com, I came across a rather…
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