Alice and Fay: A Fairy Adventure
This is the story of two friends, Alice and Fay. Alice lives in a stony house in the wall of a garden in the South of France, and Fay lives nearby in a leafy house under a rose bush.
One hot, dry summer Alice and Fay and the other garden creatures hear a call for help coming from the ruins of the old chateau. When they learn that the tiny tadpoles who live there are in trouble, they know they have to do something, because, as Alice says, “when someone small and frightened needs your help, you have to be brave.”
Alice and Fay go together to the chateau, where Fay uses her fairy magic to save the tadpoles and Alice uses her lizard magic to save Fay. In the end, all is well, but what has happened to Alice’s tail?
Mare Davis
I first learned about fairies and the magic of gardens when I was a little girl growing up in Northeast Ohio. On visits to my grandmother’s house, I sat beside the pond in the garden and watched goldfish swim though the green water while my grandmother told me stories about when she was a little girl. Each story began on a warm summer night when the window of my grandmother’s bedroom was open and Twinkle Toes, her fairy friend, slipped in through the morning glory vines and took her along on exciting fairy adventures.
I have known many gardens and fairies since then: in Ohio, Oregon, and, for many years now, in Rhode Island, where I live with my wife, Monica Shinn. Alice and Fay takes place in the garden of a house we own with friends in the South of France.
I have published dozens of essays and three books of poems: Twenty-eight Days, My Father’s House, and Dangerous Kisses. I have a Ph.D. in English Literature and have taught college composition for many years, but this is my first book for children.