I'd never seen Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairies before I started shopping for 2003 calendars. This calendar has great illustrations that look very pretty as well being hilarious. And some of the holidays they come up with are uproariously silly - things like "Fat Bottom Day" (though that may not actually be exact but something like it). Very funny! And it looks great in my bedroom!

This calendar adorns my wall.It has new pictures that don't appear in any of the two Lady Cottington books,and it is a lovely and whimsical calendar.Looking forward to spending 2003 with it!A must for all fans of Brian Froud's artwork.And no,the faeries were NOT hurt by the pressing,they only left their phsycic inprint on the pages of Lady Cottington's pressed fairy book.
The faery holidays are an extra treat!

This is a great book. I got is as a gift, although I already had the bigger, original version. It's cute, the cover and all the pages are exactly the same, just shrunk down. A great gift for a fairy lover

This is one of the first Faery books i ever owned. I did not buy from here, but bought it in a used book store. Let me tell you, if you are a believer in faeries, this is a MUST-HAVE. "Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book" is a delightful story of one Angelica Cottington who recives a blank book from her aunt, which was made for pressing flowers. But instead, she presses Fairies in them! The Fairies get their revenge and make Angelica flee to Italy. The images done but the talented Mr. Brian Froud are incrediable, as are all of his works. This really isnt a book for little children, because some of the images are quiet explicit, but i do recommend to get it for them when they reach an apporprite age.

This is a wonderful, stunning, creative, unike, funny, and enchanting book. This beautifully illustrated book has actual entries by the young girl, telling mysterious acounters with the faeries, and her daily life. The pressed faeries are amazing and realistic, but are not real pressed faeries. This book also has a cute little window deco and the book comes in paper back, hard cover, large version, and the smaller version which are all beautifull. I reccomend this book to anyone who loves faeries, and who has an open mind to the excitence of faeries. I do not reccomend this book to anyone who is a little child looking for a appropriate faery book, for the faeries are squished ( with odd little expressions on their faces,) and their is a small bit of mild sexual content.

Brian Froud is my favorite fantasy illustrator to start with. I fell in love with his book 'Faeries' back in the 70's...I am very fond of the work of his co-illustrator on that project, Alan Lee, as well. But pair Brian's brilliant art with the writing of ex Monty Pythoner Terry Jones and the result is a hilarious book that actually had me laughing out loud. Brian's lovely watercolors of shocked looking faeries (I was lucky enough to see some of his original work for the following book "Strange Stains and Mysterious Smells" this summer) pressed between the pages of the spirited Miss Cottington's journal like hapless wildflowers is just too much...and the Lady's description of the events leading up to each...er...pressing make for a thoroughly enjoyable romp. While definately not for small kids, I recommend it to anyone with a slightly grim sense of humor and a love of fantasy.

Unlike its Cottington-Archive predecessors "Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book," "Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Journal," and "Strange Stains and Mysterious Smells," the Fairy Album is a work entirely by Brian Froud (without Monty Python alumnus Terry Jones taking on any of the writing) that delves into the family history of Angelica Cottington, diarist of the Pressed Fairy Book and brother to the inventor whose contraptions made Strange Stains and Mysterious Smells possible.

The central narrative, told through diary entries of the mysterious Euphemia Cottington whom Angelica has never met, is wonderful, but I feel Angelica's hastily-scrawled commentary to Euphemia's entries detracted from the story a bit, as they lacked the humourous fluster of the Pressed Fairy Book. the art is brilliant, and i rather like the phtographs and things inserted between the pages and the little envelope stuck to a page (via a squished fairy) at the end, although it took a moment of careful tugging to determine whether or not it's meant to come off so you can read the back as you can with the photograph (it's meant to stay affixed to the page, btw).

If you're the sort who likes to get every book in a series or just a fan of Froud's non-comedic fantasy art, I highly reccomend this book. If you're looking for some Terry-Jonesian comedy to go with your fantasy, however, you might prefer "The Goblin Companion"

This is the best of the Lady Cottington books. Ever wonder why the Faeries like her so? Get this and find out

I really liked this book. I'm so glad that Brian Froud continued on with the Cottington story. When I first heard about Brian Froud back in the early 90's, it was very difficult to find Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy's in stock. I had to order it from England. The art is so original, I have just about all of Froud's books. I'm alittle disappointed though that this artist has become mainstream (i.e. Hot Topic). Froud did not disappoint his fans with Lady Cottington's Fairy Album. The storyline was interesting and still original. You have to get this book if you got the first.

Terry Jones places his unique stamp of humor on each page of Lady Cottingly's journal entries. Brian Froud's artwork of the pressed faeries is wonderful as usual. This is probably the only place you'll see a picture of a squished faerie that looks great!

If you know of someone with an off-beat sense of humor, this is the perfect gift. Not for young children since the fairies are all squished...

The story line is silly, but you can't help reading it. The art work is wonderful, and very funny.

If you're a fan of the Cottington fairy lore (the Pressed Fairy Book, Strange Stains and Mysterious Smells, and you might as well include the Goblin Companion since it too is made by the wonderful team of Froud and Jones), you'll never run out of holidays, or, as I call them, Excuses to Play Kazoo, Blow Bubbles, And Generally Make A Fool Of Myself. Some olidays are for elves or pixies or goblins only, but, if you consider the malleable nature of the celebrants as mentioned in other Froud books, this isn't really much of a hindrance. Consider this book as having four stars on it's own, but five when coupled with anything else by Terry Jones and Brian Froud.

I like this book, it's funny, the text, the illustrations! I must say, it is not one of Frouds' & Jones' best work, but still it is funny. I especially like the glow-in-the-dark stains that appears on some pages in the book...(what i really miss in the book though is smells, it would be so cool with scrape and smell pictures!!) I think that anyone coming up with such an idea of a book deserves good credit, and i wish that i would've had this book as a child!! What fun it would have been! Having worked at a kindergarden and read a million and one stories i know that kids aprechiate this type of humour, but i think that there should be a "childrens edition" to this book due to some of the language in the book...but all in all it is a good and funny book, and i especially like the "ode to an armpit" (can't remember the full title) poem...

I just got this book but I haven't quite finished it yet, but as of right now I am very pleased with it's humorous content. The text is unusual in some instances but all around it is pretty well put together. This is certainly a book I will treausre, and I've yet to check out the glow in the dark stains but I can't wait to. Granted, some of the pictures leave a little to be desired, but has anyone ever been perfect all the time? no, so it is unfair to expect this from anyone. But anyhow, this book has unmistakably been enjoyable and as with all of Frouds books, I'll be rereading this one sometime in the near future, and if a book is good enough to be reread then it's a keeper!

...but also a bit disarming! Some of the stains and "odor" illustrations in the book look... well, "fresh". I'm not altogether sure that I want to know how the book publisher achieved this effect, but it definately adds bonus points in my mind.

So, the authors of the book claim to have found a gadget that allows them to communicate with smells and stains. Odd, to think that such things are sentient, but nonetheless, their commentary is, of course, hilarious.

Not that I mean to give anything away, but my personal favorite is "The Great Stain of the Apocalypse" and the theory surrounding it. You'll have to get the book (which I recommend) to find out more!