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| Lady Cottington's Fairy Album | 
 enlarge | Author: Brian Froud
Publisher: Pavilion Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 1307056
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 64
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 12.1 x 9.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 1862055599
Dewey Decimal Number: 704
EAN: 9781862055599
ASIN: 1862055599
Publication Date: October 21, 2002
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Product Description
At last, Lady Angelica Cottington returns, in this mysterious and hilarious sequel to Brian Froud's huge international hit Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book. In this quirky and seductive new volume, 15-year-old Angelica stumbles on an annotated photo album belonging to her long-dead sister, Euphemia. The revelations within tell of fairy enchantments, wanton romance and bawdy trysts - and they cast young Lady Cottington's ancestry into shocking doubt. Along with its mysterious tale of Cottington family deviance, this extraordinary artifact offers near-indisputable evidence of the existence of fairies in the form of letters and never-before-published Victorian photographs of actual fairies, authenticated by Brian Froud, the Cottington Archive, and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Fairies. Fairies defiant, fairies au natural and, of course, fairies squashed: they're all here. Without doubt, Lady Cottington's Fairy Album will radically alter the study of the fairies' formerly secret world.
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 must have May 1, 2008
i simply adore this book! it was the first book in this series that i got and it was worth every penny, and then some. it is a wonderful story about a young girl and her fairies. it picks me up whenever i am feeling down and entertains me whenever i'm feeling bored. it is undoubtably one of the best books i own.
 Are there two versions? April 4, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I believe there are two versions to this book. I love'd the other version that I borrowed from a friend and when I got this one and started to re-read it, discovered a different story. Any way, I like this one too and will be searching for the story my friend had. If you have a die hard fairy lover in the family this is a must read. But, be warned, if they are under the age of 10 they must be told no fairies were harmed in the making of the book. My 4 year olds cried for hours when I first got the book and was telling my husband the theme. Written to look like a real diary, it draws you in.
Great addition to the series June 27, 2003
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is the best of the Lady Cottington books. Ever wonder why the Faeries like her so? Get this and find out
Cottingtonia without a Pythonian influence May 15, 2003
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
Unlike its Cottington-Archive predecessors "Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book," "Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Journal," and "Strange Stains and Mysterious Smells," the Fairy Album is a work entirely by Brian Froud (without Monty Python alumnus Terry Jones taking on any of the writing) that delves into the family history of Angelica Cottington, diarist of the Pressed Fairy Book and sister to the inventor whose contraptions made Strange Stains and Mysterious Smells possible. The central narrative, told through diary entries of the mysterious Euphemia Cottington, whom Angelica has never met, is wonderful, but I feel Angelica's hastily-scrawled commentary to Euphemia's entries detracted from the story a bit, as they lacked the humourous fluster of the Pressed Fairy Book. the art is brilliant, and i rather like the phtographs and things inserted between the pages and the little envelope stuck to a page (via a squished fairy) at the end, although it took a moment of careful tugging to determine whether or not it's meant to come off so you can read the back as you can with the photograph (it's meant to stay affixed to the page, btw). If you're the sort who likes to get every book in a series or just a fan of Froud's non-comedic fantasy art, I highly reccomend this book. If you're looking for some Terry-Jonesian comedy to go with your fantasy, however, you might prefer "The Goblin Companion"
A Must Have! February 13, 2003
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I really liked this book. I'm so glad that Brian Froud continued on with the Cottington story. When I first heard about Brian Froud back in the early 90's, it was very difficult to find Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy's in stock. I had to order it from England. The art is so original, I have just about all of Froud's books. I'm alittle disappointed though that this artist has become mainstream (i.e. Hot Topic). Froud did not disappoint his fans with Lady Cottington's Fairy Album. The storyline was interesting and still original. You have to get this book if you got the first.
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