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Summary: Uproarious read, not for the faint hearted.
Review: This book is absolutely hysterical, and is well worth the short time it takes to read. It spans the lifetime, (from a girl the age of 6) of Lady Cottington, the infamous child in the much speculated and debated fairy photo from the early 1900's that essentially started the 'fairy craze.' However, this book gives Lady Cottingtons life, and antics a very mobid, yet extrememly entertaining twist. It has become a wicked habit of hers, capturing (Slamming!) the trusting fairies that visit her in her fairy book, and keeping them. The book reads like a diary, and is handwritten, spanning early childhood to later years in her life, and details the many events,and prediciments her ability to see fairy's has gotten her into. The story itself is undeniably sharp, creative and even a bit sexual. For anyone who loves a brief outrageous read, mixing real history with fantastical elements, this book is for you!
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Summary: A Reader
Review: Recently at a friends house I was handed a copy of Lady Cottingtons Pressed Fairy Book. I could not put it down till I finished it. It was hillarious! Delightful,watercolored fairies captured in surprised expressions of colorful imagination. The young lady could not control the temptation to splatter curious creatures who land on her pages. She knows she should stop, but just can't help it. As she writes over the years, she attributes her sexual fantasies to those playful fairies paying her back. It brought back the teen in me, as I sat laughing for hours in my friends garden.I searched the flowers to find fairies myself, after reading the book. I found the search for my own copy to be equally elusive. I'm making a public plea here to mankind & fairy kingdom alike for a reprint ASAP.
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Summary: Review of Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book
Review: I've just finished reading "Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book" and I loved it. It was really funny and the artwork work was just flawless. I would reccomend this great book to anyone, however infants might find it disturbing. If you get a chance read this book, I think you will love it, just like I
did.
This book about a girl called Angelica, who recieves a book from her aunt to press flowers, but uses it to squish faeries. Angelica made a collection of faeries as a hobby, after a while the faeries want their revenge and started harassing her. She was then forced to flee to Italy.
This book is hand written and early on in the story, when she is only six, there are a lot of spelling errors, I managed reading and understanding this book easy though.
If you like fantasy art I greatly recommend this book.
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Summary: Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book
Review: After paging through this web site, I couldn't help noticing 'customers reviews', and I couldn't resist sharing my opinion of "Lady Cottinton's Pressed Fairy Book" with the world. It is the most fancinating book on fairy's that I have had the privilage to read. The story begins with Lady Cottington as a young girl, growing up as an only child, with her father and governess. She finds a way to escape the pressures of the world - fairies! The seemingly illusional girl Angelica Cottington, started pressing her fairy friends in her 'supposed-to-be' pressed flower book, and writing each time about each fairy and how she caught it. As she grows up in the book, so her hand writing changes, which I thought was excellently done. The more fairies she collects, the more obsessed she becomes in collecting them. Later on as an obviously attractive women (having recieved proposals by many men), she still lives in the existance of her fantasy land, maybe not understanding the ways of the world in which she was born to?, but that no-one knows. She lived alone, died alone, and all memories, besides her pressed fairy book, went with her! It is a gripping story that encourages one to believe in the existance of fairies. The pictures are her proof that she is not insane, though some are drawn slightly out of proportion. It's not a book you get tired of, my thanks to Terry Jones!!!
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Summary: Fascinating Fairy Book.
Review: Once i scanned through the pages of this book i had to sit down and have a proper look. As so many other readers i couldn't put it down until i finished it. It's interesting, and at stages somewhat confusing. If you know some background details of the "reality" behind fairies you will know what Lady Cottington is talking about when pouring her heart out on the pages of her diary. The pictures are intriguing, and awakens the wondering if this could be real or not. And if it's just a confused soul that found logic in her insanity by describing whatever she did that was moraly wrong as the fairies fault. She captured the images of fairies and other creatures, wheter pressed or drawings colorfully in watercolor paint. Very interesting, make sure you have a solid belief about fairies before reading this book, it might change your mind!!
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Summary: Stuck on Fairys!!!!
Review: Your readers have brought a smile to my face while reading the reviews. The Pressed Fairy Book is a delight to all senses of the human nature. What a wonderful place to take yourself for the laughter we so need in our lives. My son knew the need in my life and found a copy of the pressed fairy book last Christmas. He also found a copy of "Strange Stains & Mysterious Smells" by Terry Jones & Brian Froud. It's numbers are ISBN 0-684-83206-2 and is a wonderful addition to your collection. The calenders are a daily reminder that we need to laugh much more than we do. Somewhere in the mass confussion of my cataloges I have an address to purchase the 1999 calender. Will locate if your interested.... I to hope to see the book in print again. My daughter needs one.
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Summary: Lady Cottington's pressed book of fairys
Review: This Book is about a girl who nobody beleives that fairys are real. She squishes fairys in her journal so that people will beleive her and it becomes her hobby. PS. The illustrations are great. (Brian Froud)
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Summary: Splat
Review: I must have a twisted sense of humor, but the idea behind the book made me laugh & buy it. As usual, Brian Froud's watercolors are arrestingly beautiful, and perhaps the discrepancy between his delicate style and the gruesome subject matter heightens the funniness. This is something of a satire on his own earlier work in "Faeries". It is not a book for children, though. Don't start reading Angelica Cottington's diary to your little ones, or you might find yourself with a bedtime story you can't finish.
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Summary: Not sure I like Pressed fairies
Review: This is a cute book but I guess I just can't get into the idea of pressed fairies (really because of the symbolism) - the end of the book underscores the impact - there are no more fairies (well, they're dead, pressed between the pages of the book). The book just rubbed me the wrong way I guess - I rather see anything free and alive than caught, tagged, pressed, preserved and dead. Gave this two stars because the artwork is indeed nice and taken with a grain of salt I guess it has some humor - problem is the lack of compassion.
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Summary: great story AND wonderful artwork
Review: This book was so great, it also seemed very authentic because it looked like it was hand written. In the beggining, there are some misspellings because Angelica is only six, but I didn't have any trouble understanding it. The drawings are so cool. It even comes with a pressed faerie.(Fake, of course, no faeries were harmed). I am thirteen, and I thought it was very good, so it's not just for adults. If you like the artwork, I recomend Good Faeries, Bad Faeries. That has interesting info, and great art. This book is worth ALL the money. If you love faeries, like me, GET THIS BOOK!
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