Read about 1917 fairy hoax in library’s book review
Book Review of the Week
by Youth Services Librarian Phyllis Peter
It is hard for us to imagine now, in an era when Photoshop can make any photo look flawless, but in 1917 two girls in Cottingley, England, convinced the world that fairies were real with simple paper cutouts placed in photographs, as told by Mary Losure in “The Fair Ring: Or Elsie and Frances Fool the World.”
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