childrens fairy information-type book🧚🏼‍♀️

[mistymoon]

Hi everyone! I’m looking for a childrens book about fairies, it was NOT a novel, it was an informational book where the author was acting as a fairy from another realm, and there was lots of information on types of fairies, such as water, garden and the tooth fairy, and fairy houses and legends about changelings. There was also some “fairy recipes” which were basically just normal cupcake and milkshake recipes. I also remember that there were lift-up flaps that looked like flower petals, and in a pocket of the back cover there was a large pair of paper wings which you were meant to thread string through and wear. This book was given to me sometime between 2008 and 2012. I think the front cover was pink but i cant remember. I understand that no one here has probably read it but if anyone could help me find it that would be great! 💗🧚🏼‍♀️

Comments

[mildred_of_midgard]

Sounds like it could be by Katharine Briggs, though I wouldn't begin to know which book if it is. This one seems to have a pinkish cover.

Good luck!

[intothespin]

The recipes and paper wings make it unlikely to be Briggs, I think.

[intothespin]

Some possibilities to check out:

S. Marriott, A Field Guide to Fairies
Daisy Meadows, The Ultimate Fairy Guide
The Faerie Handbook

[greendryad]

Well, mistymoon, what do you think?

I've borrowed a book from my public library called Dragonology. While it is definitely not your book, it too has recipes and is written as if it were fact by dragon scholars. It has maps and lift-up flaps and such.

It is listed here:

https://smile.amazon.com/Dragonology-Complete-Book-Dragons-Ologies/dp/0763623296/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=dragonology&qid=1587353248&sr=8-1

Perhaps the same authors/illustrators made a book about Fairies? A casual Amazon search reveals they've also written one about Monsters, Wizards, and Oceans, but we all know that Amazon is not the know-all, end-all of information.

[(Anonymous)]

This sounds like a book I had as a child called:
"how to be a flower fairy"
by Cicely Mary Barker