This well-researched nonfiction book for children has the appeal of fairies and also the intriguing story of two young people who lied and got away with it for a very long time. But in the end, there is still one magical photograph that wasn’t staged by the girls, and you can decide if there are really fairies in it. It wasn’t until much later that the ruse was finally admitted to. It was all meant to be a little joke, but quickly got out of hand as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle got involved along with international publicity. So the girls set out to take a photograph of fairies that would stop the teasing entirely. But the grownups teased her about seeing fairies, and there was one thing that Elsie at age 15 wouldn’t tolerate and that was teasing. When Frances, age 9, visited the beck behind their small house, she saw tiny little brown men in green clothes walking about.
Elsie and Frances were cousins who hadn’t met until Frances moved to England from South Africa. This is the true story of two young English girls who fooled everyone with the photographs they took.
The Fairy Ring or Elsie and Frances Fool the World by Mary Losure
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