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Fairy Marigold's Book Club is now reviewing Thirteen characters from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

copyright 2006 M.E. Heller All Rights Reserved
Illustrations by Martha Gradisher from The Return of the Brownies by M.E. Heller
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

Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press, Aug 09 #5

"The delightful Sherlockian dolls made by Martha Heller ("Martha-My-Dear")
in the 1980s can now be seen in action, so to speak, in two amusing videos
("The Case of the Missing Afikomen" and "The
Darkened Room") created by Amy
Mantell; visit her web-site.
" sherlockshorts.com

Watch the new sherlock short

Rule Brittania

THE ELEMENTAL GNOMES CALLED BROWNIES

"WHAT IS A BROWNIE?" the child with the doll would ask. 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," she cried, as we came upon a case of one-hundred-year-old Palmer Cox brownie artifacts. And there they were; those tiny chinless, oval-eyed, long-toed skinny-legged, smiling, gnomes, their images printed and stamped upon everything from dolls and toy blocks to china plates and silverware.It was 19th Century children's writer and illustrator, Palmer Cox, who made the gnome called "Brownie" famous, and inspired M. E. Heller to create dolls and books about them. IN

THE RETURN OF THE BROWNIES

Brownies surface in the modern world and travel to Fairyland in a wizard's airship, where they find fairies and elves living an altogether different and highly imaginative lifestyle. A chapter book for young readers. Book One of a trilogy:

The Gate Between the Worlds

My fairy is called Columbine Goblinfrost

She is a bringer of riches and wealth.She lives in mushroom fields and quiet meadows.She is only seen during the first snow of winter.She wears lilac and purple like columbine flowers. She has gentle green wings like a butterfly.Get your free fairy name here!

A site for children. Almost everything you have ever wanted to know about gnomes and fairies.
SHERLOCK HOLMES!
Illustration by Palmer Cox
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