Forests and Faeries

Book title – Forests and Faeries – tales of adventure and magic
Publisher – ArtoonsInn Pages – 174 pages Language – English
Genre – Fantasy/Children’s Literature
Author – Srivalli Rekha
Available on – amazon.in
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Srivalli’s delightful anthological book of 13 stories – Forests and Faeries – is a beautiful re-telling of some of the most amazing, engrossing and timeless classics of children’s literature. The story telling is taut. The sentences are short and succinct to enable a tight string of rapturous delight.

Srivalli writes with a practiced hand and reading the story will make you realize that Srivalli is no stranger to writing fantasy or children’s literature. Her vocabulary is apt, neither too heavy nor too light, which makes this book a real diamond for the middle-graders.

The book is sure to take you on a fantastical journey to worlds where magic, faeries, witches, ogres, and other such beings exist. Even though we are acquainted with some of these stories, even though we have read them; Srivalli’s imagination and the deft manner in which she spins her version of the tales, will make you read them all anew. Quite a masterstroke, right?

Read this book to your children or better still let them read it back to you – that way, perhaps, you may just get a ginormous kick of adventure when you view the stories through their eyes and their comprehension. It just might shed a new life to the stories…

My favourite story – The Nighttime adventure!

Some touches that I really loved –

1) the cute little matching bookmark that accompanies the book … too sweet!
2) the content warnings at the beginning of the book – such a thoughtful touch!
3) the pronunciations of the Irish/Gaelic words given at the beginning of the chapters – beautiful way to rope a reader in for a sensory experience!