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neddasai's review
4.0
Gorgeous! Reminded me of Arthur Rackham's illustrations, and that's always a good thing..
gracesbookss's review
3.0
This art was absolutely beautiful! I learned a lot about classic folklore and I think I may look into reading more classic folklore fiction. This art was very aesthetically pleasing and just gorgeous. I enjoyed it a lot. If you like class folklore or fantasy and art, you will love this art book!
toad_maiden's review
3.0
Worth a gander for the illustrations (which are basically the whole point of the book), but the folkloric information is speculation at best.
haruko's review
3.0
I'm most familiar with Yoshitaka Amano's work from the Final Fantasy series. I didn't realize how famous of an artist he was, or that he had published books that were unrelated to the Final Fantasy series.
The artwork in this book is romantic and lithe. You'll find many images of dreamy women with swirling locks of hair scrawled across the page. You'll also find not so attractive images of male fairies.
The text in this book is not very interesting. It's mostly excerpts from folk tales and plays that spoke of fairies. Sometimes only a few sentences would be quoted, other excerpts would be a tad longer but it never quite felt like enough of the story was being expressed.
Fairies would make a beautiful gift to someone who's interested in the subject matter. I don't think I'd recommend it for young children as the language is a bit tough to process at times.
The artwork in this book is romantic and lithe. You'll find many images of dreamy women with swirling locks of hair scrawled across the page. You'll also find not so attractive images of male fairies.
The text in this book is not very interesting. It's mostly excerpts from folk tales and plays that spoke of fairies. Sometimes only a few sentences would be quoted, other excerpts would be a tad longer but it never quite felt like enough of the story was being expressed.
Fairies would make a beautiful gift to someone who's interested in the subject matter. I don't think I'd recommend it for young children as the language is a bit tough to process at times.
lapetite's review
3.0
Gorgeous, and at times slightly grotesque, illustrations. Most of them did possess a dream-like quality that I enjoyed.
The text consisted of tidbits of poetry and short stories about the fairy creature featured in the illustration. Not particularly remarkable.
The text consisted of tidbits of poetry and short stories about the fairy creature featured in the illustration. Not particularly remarkable.
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