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Kate Evans and her mother have recently moved to a rental home near a wooded area on the banks of the Piscataqua River in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. To Kate, the woods look like an enchanted forest, complete with ferns, mosses, and babbling brooks.
Kate is delighted to discover a small, beautifully furnished fairy house in the woods, made out of exquisite natural materials such as feathers and shells. Along with her new neighbor and fellow nature-lover Luke Carver, she discovers a mysterious note inside the fairy house that reads:
If you discover this tooth fairy’s house,
There is another yet to find.
Built big enough for a mole or a mouse,
By fairies of a different kind.”
This prompts the kids to go hunting for other fairy houses in the woods and attempt to learn who made them and why. Perhaps their discovery will help stop a developer from building a hotel on the site of the forest, and help preserve the forest for future generations of children like them.
Forest Secrets: A Fairy Houses Mystery is a straightforward yet engaging story about appreciating and preserving what nature has to offer. The authors do a laudable job of weaving lots of information about New England’s natural history through the narrative.
The book will encourage children to explore the natural habitats around them and to design and build their own fairy houses out of found natural materials.
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Usha Rao/2011 for curled
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Forest Secrets: A Fairy Houses Mystery (The Fairy Houses Series)