The Fairy Babies

    

     I finished The Fairy Babies a few weeks ago. It's a book I saw in an antique store and bought for my daughter-in-law because she likes fairies. It was different. The fairy babies were "baby" ink-bottles. The babies heard stories about a magic spoon, a magic pitcher, and a magic rocking-chair. Dwarves also figured prominently in those stories.

    My children and I love fairy-tales. We have all the Andrew Lang "color" books of fairy-tales, Grimm's, Andersen's, Greek myths, Norse legends, etc. All are worn and tattered and are picked up and re-read often. We might even be connoisseurs of fairy-tales. This book was pretty much a dud.

    I consoled myself with the latest Flavia de Luce mystery, As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust, by Alan Bradley. On to a biography of Christopher Wren!