A Practical Guide to Faeries (Practical Guides)

I've been collecting many of these Practical Guide books as part of a not-so-secret plan to use them as a gateway to playing Dungeons & Dragons for my two young children in a few years. Although this edition isn't as quite as good as the guides to dragons, monsters or wizardry, it's great kid-friendly fun while still being a great resource to anyone running a light-hearted D&D game.Although the book prefigures Wizards of the Coast's Heroes of the Feywild book by two years, there's still a number of Fourth Editionisms in here, along with some repurposed art from 3E monster books. But most readers won't notice or care, and it's all blended wonderfully together.There's guides to most faerie races (although, oddly, not pixies, which are mentioned and pictured throughout), along with faerie customs, magic, guides to fighting them and locations in a very kid-friendly (even somewhat Disneyfied) Feywild. The book has useful details even for groups without young players, like faerie language and culture. And since it's all fluff, no crunch, it's easily adaptable to various editions of D&D and its derivatives (I'm likely to use it with Castles & Crusades, myself).But readers neither need to know nor care about D&D to get full value out of this particular Practical Guide: Fans of the Spiderwick Chronicles and other fiction series will likely love this book. I also strongly recommend fans of Faeries, D&D or otherwise, to pick up Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You, which covers much of the same ground as several of the Practical Guides books, with great art by Tony DeTerlizzi.

This is one of the BEST books you can get for a child that loves fairies or to accompany a fairy garden project. So sweet and witty, this book is full of “fairy facts” that will capture your child’s imagination. Childhood should be magical.

I bought this as a gift for a faerie lover and I was able to look at it briefly after it came in. The pictures are all vibrant and beautiful! I was telling her that I may have to steal it from her, haha. There is a lot of unique information that I never would have thought would have been in here such as a fairy language guide and a funny warning to never give a faerie your full name because they will have control of you. Very cute! It was definitely worth the buy.

This book takes a text or guidebook type format that is easy to follow and is accompanied by delightful illustrations. Just the pictures should be fun for younger kids and what's written in it makes it even more fun as they get old enough to read it all.I personally prefer more of a blend of a text book and the field journal type approach as taken by the "Dragonology" series and its ilk, but this is still a great presentation for faerie lovers everywhere.

Its was good condition, and I love reading it.

Lovely artwork and a terrific gift for my daughter.

I think this would be a fun book for people who like faeries. This book discusses their Wardrobe, names, society and many other things. The facts are interesting despite they're fake :p.

Stunning artwork grace the pages of this luscious work.

Ein wunderschön illustriertes Buch, von dem ich zu Beginn eigentlich etwas ganz anderes erwartet habe, als das, was ich dann finden konnte.Die Autorin bringt dem Leser die Welt der Feen nahe, und wird dabei tatkräftig mit lustigen Kommentaren einer Fee unterstützt. Genauer unter die Lupe wird das Reich der Feen genommen, ebenso einige der bekannten FeenArten, wie sie in diversen D&D-Publikationen zu finden sind (längst jedoch nicht alle; ich habe die Dryaden vermisst, und war überrascht, daß die Banshraee aufgeführt sind). Die Lebensweise, das Spielen, die Vorlieben und die Kunst des Kochens der Feen werden ebenfalls beleuchtet, und auch, wie man die Aufmerksamkeit einer Fee eregt, sie fängt, und in das Reich der Feen gelangt.Zu den wundervollen Illustrationen des Buches gesellen sich immer wieder Bilder aus bisherigen D&D-Büchern, und in Apfelförmigen Ornamenten finden sich sehr interessante "Informationen", die von der Beschreibung diverser Feen, über Kochrezepte bis hin zu Komplimenten, die man Feen machen sollte reichen.Wie oben erwähnt gewinnt das Buch an Lebhaftigkeit durch die Kommentare der Fee 'Pip', der mit verspielter Schrift oftmals seine Kommentare an den Rand des Buches geschrieben hat.Zusammenfassend kann ich sagen, daß es ein wirklich zauberhaftes Buch ist, das wie ein Märchenbuch verstanden werden kann - wer hier auf der Suche nach Regeln oder dergleichen ist, der wird wohl enttäuscht sein, denn außer dem, was 'zwischen den Zeilen' so liebevoll versteckt ist, wird er/sie hier nichts 'handfestes' finden können.Ich gebe dem Buch * * * * * wegen seiner liebevollen Illustrationen, seinem ganz persönlichem Charme und einfach deshalb, weil es mir sehr viel Freude beim lesen bereitet hat.

thank you.