Goblins! A Survival Guide and Fiasco in Four Parts
10 best books like Goblins! A Survival Guide and Fiasco in Four Parts (Brian Froud): Griffin and Sabine, Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, Amphigorey, Dragonology, Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You, A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale, Fairyopolis: A Flower Fairies Journal, Gnomes, Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature
| Author | Nick Bantock |
| ISBN | 1551924013 |
It all started with a mysterious and seemingly innocent postcard, but from that point nothing was to remain the same in the life of Griffin Moss, a quiet, solitary artist living in London. His logical, methodical world was suddenly turned upside down by a strangely exotic woman living on a tropical island...
Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book
| Author | Terry Jones |
| ISBN | 1857933362 |
Based on the series of turn-of-the-century photos of the supposed “Cottingley Fairies”, Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book is definitely not a children’s book, but rather a morbid fantasy told through journal entries about a horrid imp of a girl who makes a hobby of crushing fairies in...
| Author | Edward Gorey |
| ISBN | 0747541604 |
The Gashlycrumb Tinies: or, After the Outing is an abecedarian book written by Edward Gorey that was first published in 1963. Gorey tells the tale of 26 children (each representing a letter of the alphabet) and their untimely deaths in rhyming dactylic couplets, accompanied by the author's distinctive...
| Author | Edward Gorey |
| ISBN | 0399504338 |
The title of this deliciously creepy collection of Gorey's work stems from the word amphigory, meaning a nonsense verse or composition. As always, Gorey's painstakingly cross-hatched pen and ink drawings are perfectly suited to his oddball verse and prose. The first book of 15, "The Unstrung Harp,"...
| Author | Dugald A. Steer |
| ISBN | 0763623296 |
For true believers only, a lavishly illustrated reproduction of a legendary volume by the world's most distinguished dragonologist. Don't let it fall into the wrong hands!
Do you believe in dragons? Now, for the first time, the long-lost research of renowned nineteenth century dragonologist...
Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You
| Author | Tony DiTerlizzi |
| ISBN | 0689859414 |
It all began with a strange, mysterious correspondence left for authors Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black at a small New England bookstore. Written by three siblings, the letter told of their great-great-uncle Arthur Spiderwick and an unfinished tome filled with eyewitness accounts of creatures...
| Author | Terri Windling |
| ISBN | 0684855593 |
Mr. Froud’s fascination and delight with the idea of hidden worlds shine through in this story about a fuzzy, furry creature who gets tossed willy nilly into a quest to rouse a sleeping queen and aid her worried spouse. The posed figures easily capture the fey spirit of the imaginary paths Sneezle must...
| Author | Cicely Mary Barker |
| ISBN | 0723257248 |
During the summer of 1920 Cicely Mary Barker kept a journal of her time in Storrington, it was during this time she felt most inspired by her fairy friends, and so decided to entrust her journal to The British Faerie Folklore Society for preservation. It is this journal we are presented with here.
Storrington...
| Author | Rien Poortvliet |
| ISBN | 0810909650 |
Abrams launched Gnomes into the hearts of Americans in 1977 and quickly racked up astrognomic sales in bookstores across the country, ultimately achieving a 62-week run on the New York Times best-seller list. Come join in the 20th-anniversary fun as gnomania strikes again!Did you know that gnome...
Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature
| Author | Andy Goldsworthy |
| ISBN | 0810933519 |
My kids are ooohh-ing and aaahh--ing behind me right now looking at the amazing art photographs in this book. We want to try to do some of this art. Amazing and beautiful stuff!
NOTE: If you can get your hands on a DVD called Andy Goldsworthy: Rivers and Tides, get it and watch it. It is Andy Goldsworthy...
| Author | Suza Scalora |
| ISBN | 0060282347 |
An archeologist, a woman of science and logic, always believed fairies were the stuff of storybooks. That was before she made the discovery of a lifetime. After learning the secrets behind locating and luring these magical creatures out from hiding, she vows to travel all over the world photographing...
| Author | Arthur Cotterell |
| ISBN | 0681617349 |
The book is oversize and has over 1,000 entries over hundreds of pages. It's bulky, but it's lavishly illustrated which makes the full size worthwhile, if you're into those kinds of things.
I think the Goodreads summary can give as good a feel as anything for this book: "An authoritative A to...
| Author | Eugenie Bird |
| ISBN | 0763614130 |
Do you believe in fairies? How about high fashion? Enter the exquisite world of fairie fashion - where feathered hats are designed for maximum lift, oak leaf jackets boast ample wing vents, and flower-petal flats are easily removable for flight.
In the fairie world, there is only one top designer...
| Author | Pierre Dubois |
| ISBN | 0684869578 |
Freddy Krueger getting a paragraph was the last straw for me (page 45). This is a lousy book. It is one of those pathological fantasy "authorities" which redefines its subject to include many, many things which don't belong (e.g. deities and Asian monsters).
The cover art is beautiful,...
| Author | Rien Poortvliet |
| ISBN | 0810916142 |
Rien Poortvliet and Wil Huygen, collaborating once again as they did so successfully in Abrams' best-selling GNOMES, now reveal to thousands of eager readers their recent encounters in the mysterious world of those tiny folk. SECRETS OF THE GNOMES is the fascinating account of a long, arduous journey...
| Author | Graeme Base |
| ISBN | 0810932377 |
With tongue planted firmly in cheek, Base (Animalia) poses as the Victorian scientist Rowland W. Greasebeam, B.Sc. (Serpentology), F.R.Aud., to serve up this compendium of dragon lore and sheer inventive nonsense. Expanding on a dozen illustrations from his calendar Dragons Draaks & Beasties,...
The Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures: The Ultimate A-Z of Fantastic Beings from Myth and Magic
The newest entry in the popular Element Encyclopedia series spans the globe and the ages to present a feast of magical beasts, both familiar and rare. Populating this ultimate reference is a host of marvelous creatures, many of which have stirred our imagination since childhood; they come from fairytales...
| Author | Amy Brown |
| ISBN | 0974461229 |
The Art of Amy Brown is the first collection of Amy Brown's wildly popular art. It was published by Chimera Publishing in 2003. The book is 157 pages of art, with a commentary by Amy Brown for every piece of artwork. The Art of Amy Brown has an introduction by the well-known author Charles de Lint. There are...
