pickOriginally published in 1925 - this collection of stories and verse honestly make for strange reading in 2023 - they are very moralistic (among other things - very set in gender stereotypes, written with the cadence of religious texts - but maybe that‘s just how kids texts were in the 1920s?)
Lovely illustrations tho. My favourite tale was of Nolia and the Great Tree - who became great, life changing friends after an unfortunate event.
Fairy Garden
I know a fairy garden,
Along a crooked way-
You reach it by the path of sleep,
Or by the road of play.
There all the flowers are fairy flowers,
Forever growing there.
There all the hours are winged hours,
Not weighted by despair.
All children‘s toys become alive
And folk of children‘s dreams ;
For nothing is as it should be,
But only as it seems.
- Eva Lawton
Me at rare book fairs taking photos of things I want to look up later…
As a kid who was obsessed with Cecely Mary Barker‘s Flower Fairies - I would have adored Pixie O‘Harris!
This original watercolour was going for AU$7,500, painted circa 1935 and titled Seven little sea horses : “I will not have cow-fish in my garden”.
I hope it finds a home where it‘s cherished.
The Pixie O'Harris Fairy Book | 
