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Faeries, Fairies, Selfies and Climbing Hills

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                When I showed up to the library on Monday, Rindy and JM handed me a book on Faeries and told me look through the book and pick something to share.   They said they had looked for a story but weren't able to find one.   The "information" book was the only they could find.   Faeries are micheiveous creatures - not to say that fairies aren't - but I think the spelling somehow changes the definition.   Faeries, on a whole, sound impish and somewhat scary . . . at least from the descriptions in the book.                 I did like the "faerie" definition to mean "doesn't necessarily have wings, no specific size (as some can be as big as giants)   . . . but are all bound by magic" and there were different classes of faeries, which I did not go into.   The book had some detailed illustrations on some pages and rather dull one...