In 1917, in Cottingley, England, a girl named Elsie took a picture of her younger cousin, Frances. Also in the photo was a group of fairies, fairies that the girls insisted were real. Through a remarkable set of circumstances, that photograph and the ones that followed came to be widely believed as evidence of real fairies. It was not until 1983 that the girls, then late in life, confessed that the Cottingley Fairies were a hoax. Their take is an extraordinary slice of history, from a time when anything in a photograph was assumed to be fact and it was possible to trick an eager public into believing something magical. Exquisitely illustrated with art and the original fairy photographs.

 

There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company .

Marc Tyler Nobleman has written many nonfiction books, including Bill the Boy Wonder and Fairy Spell. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland. www. noblemania. com