A Fairy Collection
Meet Fur, Tip and Nug, junkyard fairies who love adventures full of mischief and magic!
What do you know about fairies?
Fur, Tip and Nug are junkyard fairies, making rusty magic and turning trash into treasure. They are messy, bossy and never eat their vegetables. They live in a chipped china teapot next door to their best friend, the toad Burp, and their pet is a monstrous caterpillar named Yowch.
Join the fairies for two stories in A Fairy Collection as they navigate life at the bottom of the heap, sail down the junk river on the back of a turtle, and learn what truly makes a home.
Creators
Edwina Wyatt is an award-winning Australian children’s author. Her debut junior fiction novel The Secrets of Magnolia Moon was awarded the CBCA Honour Book of the Year for Younger Readers, and shortlisted for the Readings’ Children’s Book Prize. She has received three CBCA Notables for her picture books, and her novel Tish received a Gold Standard Selection Award from the Junior Library Guild USA. Her book Cub & Brown was named in The Guardian’s Best Australian Children’s Books of 2023. Her latest books are the Junkyard Fairies series, illustrated by the acclaimed artist, Lauren O’Hara. Edwina has a passion for horses, paddocks and pine trees, and is an “aspiring” vegetable gardener and pianist (although she cannot read music …)
Lauren O’Hara is an illustrator from the north of England. As a child she loved reading fairy tales, painting insects and listening to her grandmother’s stories. She studied art and illustration at Kingston University and then designed window displays and props for films. Lauren’s career as an illustrator began when she and her sister, Natalia, worked together on a picture book, Hortense and the Shadow. This was published in 2017 and followed in 2018 by The Bandit Queen. Lauren lives in a converted church in Dublin, Ireland with her partner, her son, their cat Ida and assorted ghosts. She is the illustrator of Madame Badobedah by Sophie Dahl.
Reviews
Wyatt’s modern-day fairy stories are perfect for reading out loud to children aged 5 to 7 and could be read by independent readers
Books + Publishing
I’m a big fan of the writing of Edwina Wyatt – her work evokes a sense of nostalgia, a sense of coziness and always offers quality descriptive language. This is the first title in a new series, a series of connected short stories full of ‘magic, charm, mischief and mayhem’. This is a great read for young readers ages 7 plus and a great read aloud. Five thumbs up.
The Children’s Bookshop
It’s different, it’s whimsical, it has a gentle underlying message about conservation and recycling and upcycling, and it reminded me a little of S. A. Wakefield’s classic Bottersnikes and Gumbles and probably as far as you can get from the traditional image of glittery, magic-spreading fairies.
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