Twilight Fairies

Steve Pitt is a Toronto-based freelance writer and an award-winning journalist. He has written many young adult and children's books, including Day of the Flying Fox: The True Story of World War II Pilot Charley Fox.

Young Miranda was born on midsummer’s day, the longest day of the
year. When asked to plan her own birthday party, instead of asking for
clowns or games she tells her family she intends to celebrate her
birthday with the evening fairies that she says live in her mother’s
beautiful flower garden. Unfortunately, no one believes in the fairies
except her. Miranda paints decorations and leaves invitations for the
fairies. Her mother makes a cake and sandwiches. Sam, Miranda’s
brother, hangs green paper decorations from the trees. At midsummer’s
evening, Miranda’s human guests arrive. Although the fairies remain
invisible, suddenly all the decorations in the garden and even
Miranda’s green satin dress seem to shimmer in the twilight. When the
human guests have gone home Miranda listens carefully from her bedroom
window and is sure she can hear the “tinklehum of fairymerrymaking”
in the garden.

This book by award-winning author Nancy Hundal is aimed directly at
your nymph nodes. Both Hundal’s romantic verbal imagery and Don
Kilby’s shimmering high-realism illustrations are hard to resist. Page
by page, the reader is drawn toward the magic of midsummer’s eve,
where all things are possible. Highly recommended.