from Quinnlee

Received this book as an Early Review copy. This book is most certainly an encyclopedia, as the title suggests. From A-Z it give snippets of different mythological creatures, some familiar and some that I had never heard of previously. It is a fantastic reference book for writers. I would have gi...

from Luna.Falena

I received this book from LibraryThing as an Early Reviewer book. I have read through much of it but I am still going through this since it is an encyclopedia. I have to say that I am really enjoying it. The structure is done well, allowing for easy reference. You have the name of each fairy with...

from jen.e.moore

I received this book from LibraryThing as an Early Reviewer book. This is a pretty great resource. There's a very broad definition of "fairy" being used, which means that just about any kind of magical creature you can imagine makes an appearance. There is a definite British bias, but there are e...

from Heather.C

This encyclopedia lists fairies by name alphabetically with a short description of the fairy. In addition the fairies are also indexed. I like that there are references for each entry as well as a bibliography; this makes it very easy to read more on a particular fairy. This book is a useful refe...

from TheDivineOomba

Oh my. A book that sounds interesting in principal... but lacks editing, spell check, organization, or anything else that makes a good book. But - I persevered. Reading a few pages each night - Sometimes an entry would need to re-read a number of times just to understand what it is about. On top ...