The Fairies Garden
Who wrote the book about children seeing Fairies in their garden?
The Secret Garden is a great book but it’s NOT About Fairies in the garden. The orphan girl befriends a boy and tries to restore the garden whilst befriending her ‘sick’ cousin and helping him to overcome his problems. No fairies. There was a true story about a couple of sisters who claimed to play with fairies in the garden. They drew Pictures Of Fairies, propped them in the garden and took photos and fooled a heck of a lot of people who really should have known better. It was England in the (fairly) early days of photography hence the photos weren’t seen immediately as fakes. Enid Blyton wrote lots of stories of children playing with fairies, pixies etc such as The Wishing Chair where the children go on adventures to various fairy lands in a flying chair with their pixie or gnome friend Chinky. The Faraway Tree series sees the children going to the local wood where they play with a variety of odd characters including a fairy called Silky. I’m sure she wrote plenty more but she wasn’t alive to be publishing in 1993. There have been some dodgy Blyton rip offs published though, unless the book mentioned was a re-issue.
Shrinky Dinks: Fairy Garden