Book: Good Fairies, Bad Fairies by Brian Froud

Book Info: Published by Simon & Schuster; 192 pages; hardcover; Source: From the library

Goodreads Summary: Returning the to magical realm of his beloved bestseller “Faeries”, illustrator extraordinaire Brian Froud introduces readers to all manner of fairies–those vibrant creatures who guide, enchant, and disrupt our lives while putting us in touch with out inner natures. 215 illustrations, 200 in color.

I wasn’t sure if I would like this book, but I really liked it!  In fact, I liked it a lot more than Fairies, also by the same author.

I loved the artwork, and it’s absolutely beautiful!  Froud has a talent for drawing fairies, and I’m so glad he’s sharing it with the world.  I loved seeing so many different fairies and Froud’s vision of what they looked like.  As for the text, it wasn’t overwhelming, and it complemented the art rather nicely.  I was expecting huge blocks of text, but much to my delight, there were small paragraphs to go with a lot of the pictures.

I liked that he divided the fairies into good fairies and bad fairies.  A lot of them weren’t familiar to me, so it was cool to see a lot of different fairies.  And for the ones I have heard of…I liked seeing his version of them, and his thoughts on those fairies.

Overall, it gets a 4 out of 5.  Beautiful artwork, and interesting information about fairies.  But I didn’t completely love it.