Fairy Houses
by
Tracy Kane
Children's fiction ages 4-7
Kristen doesn't know whether to believe in fairies or not, but she tries setting up a house for them in case they are real. This is a lovely, imaginative book that can easily inspire a family to use their imaginations outdoors to make fairy houses. Along the way children and adults will rediscover the beauty of leaves, sticks, acorns, pine needles, etc.
This was on a list of books recommended by our local park district. This book should be on the bookcase of nature and fantasy lovers. Homeschoolers, scouts, 4-H troops, etc. can use this book to get ideas about nature study. I especially liked that there are suggestions for how to change a fairy house with the seasons and what animals might come to live in a fairy house (a toad, a chipmunk, etc). You can even adapt a fairy house for oceanside, desert, tundra, and more.
