Did you know Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote Fairy Poems? She did! While she was out in San Francisco seeing Rose, Rose got her a job writing poems for a children's paper.
I don't often associate LIW with fairies. I mean so much of her life was so practical and no-nonsense, where would fairies fit in?
But then, if someone loves flowers and nature as much as Laura did, fairies are not far behind.
I found this little gem on the shelf in my library one day and was completely delighted.
The illustrations are SO NOT Laura Ingalls Wilder--okay, Laura Ingalls Wilder is really just Garth Williams, but I love them anyway.
The Fairy Dew Drop
Down by the spring one morning
Where the shadows still lay deep,
I found in the heart of a flwoer
A tiny fairy asleep.
Her flower couch was perfumed,
Leaf curtains drawn with care,
And there she sweetly slumbered
With a jewel in her hair...
...But a sunbeam entered softly
And touched her, as she lay.
Whispering that 'twas morning
And fairies must away.
The fairies in the Sunshine
Painting flower and baby faces.
...They color all the apples
And work for days and weeks
To make the grapes bloom purple
And paint the peaches' cheeks.
Ah! There's a tiny fairy!
She's in the garden bed!
It's little Ray O'Sunshine
Who makes the roses red.
The Naughty Four O'Clocks
This is a sweet little book of fairy poems--just a dozen or so, but so darling!
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