August 7, 2007
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Elise is a young girl with a passion for painting and getting it just right. One day she is painting outside, when she stops to run inside for lunch. When she returns she’s astonished to find a fairy stuck by her wings into her painting. There is nothing to do but wait for a new pair of wings to grow, so Elise brings her painting inside to keep the fairy until her new wings grow in.
Then Mom, proud of her daughter’s painting, as every mother would be, enters the painting into a contest and Elise is desparate to save her new friend.
When I read this aloud with my 4 year old, she became as stuck to Stacey Duford’s story as the fairy’s wings to Elise’s painting. She laughed and exclaimed gleefully at the wonderfully expressive and comic illustrations by Wendy Popko. This book was an immense pleasure to read with her and became a favorite. My 10 year old, a voracious reader after her mother’s and father’s hearts, found it just as entertaining.
This book is another treasure from a small stack of books I have from the regional publisher, Mackinac Island Press, in Michigan. I’ll be talking about the others as well over the next few weeks before school starts back up. Its a great pick for tickling a kid’s funny bone.
You can find out more about The Fairy Painting and many other excellent books for kids at the The Mackinac Island Press website.
We found a great deal at Childrens Book Club and got 5 childrens books for only $2.