Welcome to the fourth of five "My Poetry Book" Kids' Poetry Challenge post link-ups! In celebration of National Poetry month, we're challenging other parents and kids to explore the world of poetry together. More details at the end of this post.
Within the fantasy world fairies are often depicted as caretakers of nature and they also watch over all the creatures in the animal kingdom. Earth Day is a day of environmental awareness and we're celebrating by reading "A Fairy Went A-Marketing," a poem by Rose Fyleman about a very caring and beneficent fairy.We found an incredibly beautiful picture book version titled A Fairy Went A-Marketing
with illustrations by Jamichael Henterly at our library. Henterly's breathtaking pictures depict an amazing fairy-tale world full of the wonders of nature. The fairy, with her beautiful, long brown hair and spectacular butterfly-like wings, goes to market and ends up helping out various animals including a fish, bird, frog and mouse. My daughter loves to slowly page through the illustrations and point out all the interesting fairy world details. "A Fairy Went A-Marketing" originally appeared in Fyleman's book of verse, Fairies and Chimneys (c1920). The entire book can be viewed online at the Internet Archive. (By the way, if you've never visited the Internet Archive, you must! It is a virtual treasure trove.) Fairies and Chimneys includes several fairy-themed poems, and I especially like the short "Bird Lore" poems. Fyleman dedicated the book to her mother, "To the realest fairy of my childhood, my mother." Also, one of the poems in the book is titled, "Mother." Isn't that wonderfully sweet?
by Rose Fyleman
A Fairy went a-marketing —
She bought a little fish;
She put it in a crystal bowl
Upon a golden dish.
An hour she sat in wonderment
And watched its silver gleam,
And then she gently took it up
And slipped it in a stream. ..."
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Make Your Own Miniature Fairy Book Craft
Rather than illustrate just one part of the poem, my daughter decided to draw pictures for all the verses. Inspired by the creative make-your-own miniature books at DYI Dollhouse Miniatures, I designed a miniature "A Fairy Went A-Marketing" book for her to illustrate. She's still not entirely finished coloring her artwork but you can see her progres
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, compiled by Stephen W. Hines and illustrated by Richard Hull.
What a precious little book! Her pictures are just wonderful. JDaniel loves rhyming. He seems to enjoy the illustration more than the poems when we read them.
Thanks for linking to Read.Explore.Learn.
Happy Easter!
Thank you so much for stopping by our blog, and letting us know about your link-up. We are so excited to participate and see everyone's great ideas!
I'm so glad I saw this! I didn't realize it was poetry month...we love reading poems, but now I'll make sure we make a point of it and add in the art component too! Thanks for the reminder!
What an interesting idea to make a mini-book. The blog you linked to looks fascinating. Perhaps I'll pick up this hobby when I have a bit more free time :)
Your mini book is absolutely ADORABLE, I remember loving that kind of thing when I was little. Those would be really fun to make for your doll house.
My son has become absolutely enamored with fairies after watching the Tinkerbell movie. He'd love the illustrated poem and the miniature book for sure! Thanks for linking up at Feed Me Books Friday!
That's just adorable. (I know that word must come up frequently, but it is *the right word.*
I think one of the best ways to raise children who love art and books is let them make books and art--so this is a winner, certainly.
Wow! Amazing--so happy to see you and your daughter enjoying poetry this way.
I'm off to check out the template and see if I think I can do this!