The magic of fairies is not an end in itself. Its virtue is in its operations. Among these are the satisfactions of certain primordial human desires, one of which is to survey the depths of time and space, and another is to hold communion with other living things.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN

How I came to write a children's fantasy chapter book about the Palmer Cox Brownies, what they are, and what might have happened to them an hundred years after Palmer Cox.

Some years ago, in Rochester New York's Strong Museum, we followed a young gift store buyer up and down the aisles of Margaret Strong's amazing collection of dolls and Victoriana.

"Here they are," the gift store buyer cried, as we came upon a case of one-hundred-year-old Palmer Cox Brownie artifacts. And there they were, printed and stamped upon everything from dolls and toy blocks to china plates and silverware; those tiny chinless, oval-eyed, long-toed, skinny-legged smiling gnomes called Brownies.

NOWa children's book, THE RETURN OF THE BROWNIES, is an amusing fairy tale about the elementals who may have lived with Palmer Cox, in his home in Granby, Quebec, near the end of his career, in the early 1900's.

FIND THE BROWNIES IN BROWNIE CASTLE

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