Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book: 10 and 3 quarter Anniversary Edition (Bonus DVD)

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There is some nudity (as fairies aren't that modest), but that part of the book made it even more intriguing for a pre-pubescent as I was at the time. Dark humor by Jones (of Monty Python fame) The publisher (at the request of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Fairies) notes that no fairies were injured or killed in the manufacturing process. Angelica doesn't go into detail, but enough to give you suspicions about what happens and it's not pleasant. Removable sleeve on "naughty" pages printed: "sealed by Lady Cottington for the protection of the innocent".

so in short, mentioning the oppression--which, of course, no one would admit was real) made me appreciate the book more. Designed to resemble a reproduction of the awful little girl’s actual journal, the book comes with dozens of wonderful drawings—courtesy of Brian Froud, the man behind the creature designs for the movies Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal—of fairies splattered across age-yellowed pages. Based on the series of turn-of-the-century photos of the supposed “Cottingley Fairies”, Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book is definitely not a children’s book, but rather a morbid fantasy told through journal entries about a horrid imp of a girl who makes a hobby of crushing fairies in between the pages of her dairy. The pictures are amazing and the overall book is hilarious but the actual story is weird and quite horrifying. The story itself - the diary of the girl who captured the fairies - is often amusing and charming, but at times quite terrible.Having raised my daughter on Cicely Mary Barker's flower fairy images and poems, this send-up had me rolling with laughter. Through the handwritten journal of Lady Cottington we learn details of her life, beginning in early childhood to her later years. This, however, is a translation of the first book, with text by Terry Jones and artwork by Brian Froud. When she's younger the writing style reflects that and I didn't realise how twisted her action of squashing the fairies was quite till the end.

What's also amusing is that the library has catalogued this under author Angelica Cottington and SISO classification code 908. Lady Angelica Cottington took the infamous p hotograph of a group of fairies that was authenticated by Ar thur Conan Doyle. Ethnology - Superstition, including witchcraft and magic"), as if Angelica was real and this was an actual non-fiction book on fairies. If you don't know who he is, he worked on some creatures for Jim Henson's Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. INCLUDES THE ORIGINAL BOOKMARK/WINDOW STICKER AND THE BROWN PAPER BAND THAT CORDONED OFF THE EVER SO SLIGHTLY RISQUE ILLUSTRATIONS AT THE BACK (SLIGHT MISS FOLDS) PLEASE SEE PHOTOGRAPHS.I would have taken the whole thing as a personal affront and refused to ever watch Monty Python again because Terry Jones would have been DEAD TO ME.