The Art of Australian Fairies | Beautiful Fairy Books

★ Links below ⬇ if you need them. An overview of Australian Fairy books, including the delicate fairyland of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, the cheeky bush babies of May Gibbs, the original Australian Fairy Tales of Hume Cook, and the marine sprites of Pixie O'Harris, among others. More info on the website here: beautifulbooks.info/2019/02/th...
Links to the books below, if you're interested in finding a copy. Some book links below are affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
-- Ida Rentoul Outhwaite --
► Calla Editions Fairyland
Book Depository: tidd.ly/ba09c377
Amazon: amzn.to/2GZb7X8
► Ida Rentoul Outhwaite’s Fairies Oversized Art Prints
Book Depository: tidd.ly/d6ac318a
Amazon: amzn.to/2TYlwpE
► Deluxe 1st Edition Fairyland (OOP): bit.ly/Fairyland1st
► Deluxe 1st Edition Elves & Fairies (OOP): bit.ly/ElvesFairies1st
► Cheap Vintage Copies (OOP): bit.ly/IdaVintage
-- May Gibbs --
► Snugglepot and Cuddlepie 100th Anniversary @ Book Depository: tidd.ly/80e0f001
Or @ NSW Library bit.ly/SnugglepotNSWLibrary
► Publisher’s Page: www.harpercollins.com.au/9781...
-- Hume Cook & Christian Yandell --
► Australian Fairy Tales bit.ly/CookFairyTales
-- Harold Gaze --
► Goblin’s Glen bit.ly/GoblinsGlen
-- Nuri & Celeste Mass --
► Little Grammar People (reprint):
Book Depository: tidd.ly/f0d63350
Amazon: amzn.to/2BQLwwi
► Little Grammar People (1st ed. OOP): bit.ly/GrammarPeople1st
-- Pixie O'Harris --
► Pixie O’Harris Fairy Book (Omnibus, OOP): bit.ly/PixieFairyBook
► Pixie O’Harris 1st Editions (OOP): bit.ly/PixieOHarris1sts
-- Margaret Thornton & Elizabeth Alger --
► Australian Flower Fairies @ Amazon: amzn.to/2GZblNS
► Publisher Page: www.leavesofgoldpress.com/fant...
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*This video is not a paid promotion, but some links are affiliate links :) For this video I also requested the copies of Australian Flower Fairies and the Snugglepot volume from the publishers (I had previously purchased Snugglepot but wanted to show you the anniversary edition).
Music is Debussy's Arabesques, performed by Patrizia Prati. Kindly licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
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Book Depository Affiliate: bit.ly/BDBeauty
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[@ShiroKuro13]

Gracias por compartir ❤

[@beachcomberboz2902]

Thank you so much for your your lovely review of our fairy heritage.

[@sac1303]

How could you possibly pick a favourite? If pushed, I'd pick Pixie O'Harris. But they are all brilliant. TFS

[@kbal1451]

I've known of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite since the '80s and May Gibbs since the '70s but not the others. I still have the very small book of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite from the '80s (such gorgeous images) and a few May Gibb's collections the largest my one from 1985. I didn't know of the 100th anniversary edition thank you for the links. Another lovely video. Thank you :D

[@BeautifulBooks]

k bal I hope more of Ida’s book are reprinted, her artwork is so exquisite 💕 Thanks as always for watching and taking time to comment 🥰

[@BeaconHillBooks]

Fascinating! I knew of no Australian fairies but love fairy drawings!

[@BeautifulBooks]

Beacon Hill Books Oh, glad to be able to introduce some new fairy artists then 💕

[@pinkoii7579]

These look amazing!
Also, I’ve been trying to find this book for years now but I can’t remember the title or the name of the author. But, I do remember some parts of the book:
-The cover of the book was like a blue sky with fairies flying around in the middle
-There was once scene where water pond/ lake fairies made you answer riddles to pass the lake
-There was a scene were you walked into a shy weeping fairy in an icy cave
-There was a scene in the dark, where the pond/ lake morphed into a face of person....
That’s really all I remember, also the book was more a chapter thick book, rather than a thin book
If anyone knows the name of the book or the author pls tell me, thank you 🙏🏻🤍🤍

[@BeautifulBooks]

I hope you find your book! (LibraryThing has a great forum called “name that book” where you might be able to get some help looking for it!) it would also be helpful to know when you read it?

[@pinkoii7579]

@@BeautifulBooks Thank you! The book has been found 🤍🤍

[@BeautifulBooks]

Oh, that’s wonderful news! What was the book called?

[@pinkoii7579]

@@BeautifulBooks it's called the secret of the fairies, by Thea Stiltion! Thank you so much one again

[@scottishpine]

magical. Thank you for sharing. An fee,ling sadness, though, because it shows the superimposition of white people's perceptions on what must be a very rich indigeneous landscape beings lore. Where are they depicted?

[@BeautifulBooks]

Yes, this video highlights 'pan-European'-style literary magical fairy beings. I've been working on a separate video covering Australian Aboriginal dreamtime stories (which as you point out contains a rich lore of indigenous beings) - I have separated them separate from these 'fairies' because they are creatures of a very different historical and cultural nature. (There's a bit more background on my web page here: beautifulbooks.info/2019/02/the-art-of-the-australian-fairy/). Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to make this important observation :)