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The true story of British cousins who fooled the world for more than 60 years with a remarkable hoax, photographs of "real" fairies. Exquisitely illustrated with art by Eliza Wheeler as well as the original photos taken by the girls.In 1917, in Cottingley, England, a girl named Elsie took a picture of her younger cousin, Frances. Also in the photo was a group of fairies, fairies that the girls insisted were real. Through a remarkable set of circumstances, that photograph and the ones that followed came to be widely believed as evidence of real fairies. It was not until 1983 that the girls, then late in life, confessed that the Cottingley Fairies were a hoax. Their take is an extraordinary slice of history, from a time when anything in a photograph was assumed to be fact and it was possible to trick an eager public into believing something magical.
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Award-winning author of books for all ages, including one that changed history and inspired an unprecedented documentary.Nonfiction:* "Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman" (inspired the Hulu feature documentary "Batman & Bill," the first film based on a nonfiction picture book) * "Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot's World War II Story" (Orbis Pictus Honor) * "Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman" (made front page of "USA Today") * "Fairy Spell: How Two Girls Convinced the World That Fairies Are Real"Fiction:* "The Chupacabra Ate the Candelabra" (picture book comedy about the Latino myth) * "Brave Like My Brother" (WWII novel told in letters) I've had the privilege of being invited to speak at schools and conferences in more than half the 50 states and a dozen countries from Thailand to Tanzania. My blog Noblemania shares adventures in publishing (from research victories to promotional gambles) .
