Good Night, Fairies
Children enamored with the notion of fairies will drink up Kathleen and  Michael Hague's lush picture book like nectar. When a mother is asked by her  child about how fairies spend their days and nights, she embarks on a dreamy  account of these mysterious, magical creatures. For starters, fairies hang the  stars in the sky each evening "so every child will have a night-light." They  also teach birds to sing, paint the wings of butterflies, comb mermaids' hair,  and sleep "on leafy beds in secret gardens." The wondering child falls asleep to  these poetic musings, welcomed to dreamland by the fairies.Lyrical colored-pencil and watercolor illustrations, filled with elaborate  detail, accompany this gentle bedtime story. Readers are challenged to find and  count all 321 winged fairies in the book, and to look for the red-capped fairy  hiding on each page. The author-illustrator team has paired up on several  bestselling titles, includingTen  Little BearsandAlphabears. (Ages 3 to 7)--Emilie Coulter