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A Fairy in a Dairy
by Lucy A. Nolan

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Lucy Nolan
Marshall Cavendish
Laura J. Bryant
Hardcover
11 x 9 1/2 inches
29
0-7614-5130-7
2003, stated 1st Edition
5 - 8
3
$16.95
$10.99
Recognitions:
Best Children's Book of the Year
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Why You Will Enjoy A Fairy in the Dairy

If you read A Fairy in the Dairy to a child, it will tickle your funny bone. The play on dairy words is really fun. ("Excitement churned through Buttermilk Hollow" and "Mooo-ve to Buttermilk Hollow. It's udderly delightful.") You will enjoy this picture book for the writing and for the Norman Rockwell-like illustrations. Laura J. Bryant's illustrations are full-color and large, taking up more room on the page than the words. They too are humorous. I liked this book because it made me feel light-hearted. I hope Fairy in a Dairy will do the same for you.

Synopsis

The people of Buttermilk Hollow folk have an opportunity to get rich quick if they sell their dairy farms to a land developer. That's the mayor's plan. But, there's a fairy in the dairy in Buttermilk Hollow and it's churning with excitement.

Description

Lucy Nolan has created a very clever picture book where ballgowns are made of swiss cheese; a gallon of banana yogurt appears on a pillow under Annie Colby's head and Eddie Ricotta finds Muenster hiding under his bed. In spite of the mayor's unbelief, Buttermilk Hollow does indeed have a fairy in full operation. Who that fairy is is part of the surprise ending.

About Laura Bryant, Illustrator

Laura A. Bryant as a child

Laura Bryant, pictured here as a child, was born and raised in Florida. She admits she was fortunate to have a creative Mother and enthusiastic art teachers who encouraged her enjoyment of drawing.
Laura attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore studying painting, printmaking and sculpture.
In 1997 she set her sites on a career in children's books and has since received a number of awards: the IRA & CBC Children's Choice Award for Smudge Bunny,
an ALA Top Ten Pick for Early Readers, Where Fish Go in Winter and Other Great Mysteries,
and the Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year for A Fairy in a Dairy, If You Were My Baby: A Wildlife Lullaby andWhere Fish Go in Winter...

Ms. Bryant is married to Joshua Miler who is also an artist. In 2000, they moved to an old farm house in Mathias, West Virginia.

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