Renowned artist/author duo Brian and Wendy Froud present, for the first time, the backstory of Cottington Hall and its intriguing inhabitants: the Cottington family and the faeries living among them. The rise and fall of this eccentric British family gives us humorous, and sometimes tragic, glimpses into how the Cottingtons became inexorably entwined with the faeries during the late 19th and 20th centuries. When a descendant, Maddi, visits the Cottingtons’s dilapidated hall, she finds herself caught up in a story of intrigue and mystery. While reading the letters and journals of her ancestors and discovering a wealth of inventions aimed at allowing humans to visit the fairy realm unharmed, Maddi slowly becomes aware of the faeries and their world.
Many years ago I read Lady Cottintton’s Book of Pressed Fairies and I’m only now discovering that more books were added to the collection. I had a journal that was mentioned but sometime ago I found The Pressed Fairy Journal of Madeline Cottington by Brian and Wendy Froud and learned the legend continues!
Obviously
you don’t have to read the older books, I’m struggling to track one of
them down myself. This journal is of Madeline Cottington, some many
years descendant of the original Lady Cottington. Madeline and her
family suddenly move to England for her father’s work. Madeline has
always seen flits of light and color but coming to England these strange
occurrences happen even more.
Madeline
begins to uncover quite the family history and it involves fairies.
When her father refuses to acknowledge Madeline’s questions and claims
she ventures out on her own and finds a piece of her family history in
Cottington manor where she finds several journal entries of Quentin and
Angelica Cottington.
Like
previous journals you’ll find in here many a pressed fairy. The
illustrations in this book were quite beautiful, if a little odd. As
there are actual fairies pressed into the book and you can see their
juicy imprints! Lol. There are also other pictures and journal entries
that have been added into Madeline’s journal.
The
entries end with quite a cliffhanger in a sense as something telling us
about to happen just after Madeline learns some dire information. While
I wouldn’t say we are out on a limb with the anticipation, one does
still wonder what happened next. This book is from 2016 and I haven’t
really found anything newer from the authors.
This
is a short little read but it’s a lot of fun! Definitely for a fan of
fairies and all the mysteries and mischief that they hold.
Overall Rating 5/5 stars
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