  | Fairy walk Author: Cornwall, Gaia | |
| Price: $22.58 | ||
Summary:
Let's go, let's go! Hopping and skipping into the woods behind their house, a trio of kids and their loyal doggy companion head off into the wild world in search of fairies. Their explorations lead them across a babbling brook and through bushes and meadows of fragrant honey snowdrops and bee balm. But where are the fairies?
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (02/01/25)
Booklist (02/01/25)
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (00/03/25)
The Hornbook (00/05/25)
Full Text Reviews:
Other - 04/14/2025 Streamlining the goings-on with simple dialogue and action words, Cornwall (The Best Bed for Me) follows three children searching for fairies in the woods. "Let’s go, let’s go!/ Skip,/ skip,/ skip,/ trip!" they say while waving goodbye to two adults and venturing through a gate. It’s a rainy, misty day, and opaque pastel, watercolor, and collage spreads depict a brown-skinned child in a pink rain poncho opening their arms wide: "Where are you, fairies?" A smaller, light-brown-skinned child in a floofy skirt gestures at a rock. After the trio tips it over, readers see an outstretched hand holding not the sought-after quarry but a small orange newt: "A dragon!" And though the tallest, a pale-skinned child in a yellow rain slicker, gestures for quiet, they find "no fairies at all!" The search does, however, turn up mushrooms, insects, and underground life ("Feel the ground! It hums. It thrums"). While the children never see them, readers are likely to spot small, blue, winged beings across the pages of this freewheeling group outing of a work about careful noticing. Ages 3-7. Agent: Emily van Beek, Folio Jr./Folio Literary. (Apr.) - Copyright 2025
Booklist - 02/01/2025 A forest beckons three children and their dog with the promise of fairies tucked among its foliage. But first they must gear up. The youngest adds yellow galoshes and a walking stick to a polka-dotted skirt and red-striped hoodie. The middle child, a pink-and-purple dream with brown skin and a tiara, grabs a matching poncho and umbrella. The eldest, blonde and fair, stocks a backpack with snacks, binoculars, and a magnifying glass. Ready. With a wave to their moms, they set off, their pup bounding by their sides. They venture over a stream and into the woods, peering beneath rocks and around logs in hopes of spotting a fairy. Young readers will delight over the tiny, magical beings flitting through the collage illustrations, noticed only by the dog. Cornwall (Jabari Jumps, 2017) keeps her writing simple but descriptive, ripe for reading aloud, and though the children don’t find a fairy (this time), they nonetheless revel in the magic of the natural world. A sweet blend of Beatrice Alemagna’s On a Magical Do-Nothing Day (2017) and Phoebe Wahl’s Backyard Fairies (2018). - Copyright 2025 Booklist.
