- Hardcover: 40 pages
- Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR); First Edition edition (April 1 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0805070060
- ISBN-13: 978-0805070064
- Product Dimensions: 26.2 x 23.1 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 485 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,107,232 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Richard Doyle's (1824-1883) fairy-infused chromolithographs first greeted viewers in the 1870 edition of In Fairyland: A Series of Pictures from the Elf World. Now, Fairyland in Art and Poetry: From the Metropolitan Museum of Art pairs Doyle's popular artwork with poetry by the likes of William Shakespeare, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Eleanor Farjeon and Langston Hughes in a handsome keepsake edition.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Grade 3-7 Richard Doyle's classic 1870 book In Fairyland is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the museum has reproduced his charming and romantic chromolithographs along with fairy poetry. The selections are predominantly by 19th-century English favorites (John Keats, William Shakespeare, Walter de la Mare), though American, Irish, and Scottish poets are included, as well as some early 20th-century authors (Stevie Smith, Langston Hughes, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Eleanor Farjeon). The 22 poems, all metered and rhymed, match the spirit of the illustrations, and will appeal to readers in their Secret Garden or Anne of Green Gables stage. Several of the poems are excerpted (Shakespeare's from plays, without citation), and readers may be getting more than they bargained for with Keats's "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" or the excerpt from William Butler Yeats's "The Stolen Child," though these are worthy verses to be haunted by. With its beautiful colors and heavy-stock paper, this attractive book will be picked up as light fare-and readers may enjoy it as such. Libraries that never have enough "pictures of fairies" will certainly want at least one copy. -Nina Lindsay, Oakland Public Library, CA
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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A SUPERB PAIRING OF ART AND POETRY, Mar 12 2002
By Gail Cooke - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Fairyland: In Art and Poetry (Hardcover)
British artist Richard Doyle (1824-1883), the son of a portrait painter and caricaturist, may be best remembered by some as the creator of the cover design for Punch, which was used for over a century. He also illustrated a number of children's books and created beguiling paintings of fairies, the wee folk. It is the latter that is used to illustrate this lovely keepsake volume.Doyle's paintings are imaginative and incandescent, luminous illustrations of fairies astride snails, perched on a beetle or relaxing on a verdant hillock. Each illustration perfectly accompanies a poem, such as a tiny one sipping from a cowslip's bell in Shakespeare's "Ariel's Song" or fairies engaged in a tug-of-war with a grasshopper in "An Explanation of the Grasshopper" by Vachel Lindsay.
Other poets represented include John Keats, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Butler Yeats, and Langton Hughes.
The pairing of art and poetry is superb, thoughtfully conceived and executed. This slim volume deserves a place in everyone's library.
- Gail Cooke
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Lovely Art, Lovely Poetry, Dec 24 2006
By Miss Mermaid "Respect Water" - Published on Amazon.com
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The fairy art in this is unique and exquisite. Each image goes very well with the sweetly written poetry along side it. Wonderful to read to a child or yourself to lift you spirits!
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