The Land of Stone Flowers: A Fairy Guide to the Mythical Human Being

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The fairy creatures of the Glimmering Land of Maar don't generally believe in humans, but as the stories collected in The Land of Stone Flowers will show, humans are just as real as any pixie, gnome, fairy or troll! A refreshing twist on the timeless fairytale genre, The Land of Stone Flowers is a stunning collection of entertaining tales, keen observations, and wild assumptions about the inhabitants of the human world, as told by the fairy creatures who believe in them. From the bewitching paper wizards who live in a human's wallets to their invisible hats known as "moods" which cloud a human's view of the world, the human "land of stone flowers" is shown in wild and whimsical detail through drawings, letters, diagrams, and stories, all told with a playful voice and an eye to the strange and the wonderful. This stunning collection is as absurd as it is astounding, examining contradictory and nonsensical human behaviours through the lens of the fantastic while providing a surprising and entertaining look at the things we take for granted. With a visual style that evokes Aubrey Beardsley, Harry Clarke, or Alphonse Mucha while at once being wholly her own, Sveta Dorosheva creates a modern world of whimsy and wonder in this fairy book for a modern generation, each page bursting with playful details and clever, tongue-in-cheek text that will pull readers in again and again.

Sveta Dorosheva is no less than a magician. She is a 34-year old Russian author and illustrator, linguist, designer, and art director. Sveta is the author of Mommy Hurries Home (2009) and The Nenuphar Book (2011, Russian and Romanian). Sveta loves to create stories where words and images magically intertwine to create a new universe - or as she puts it "stories so unique that they turn the world on its head." Sveta lives in Israel with her husband and two children.

After reading The Land of Stone Flowers, you'll come away with a new appreciation for the magical world, for your own world, and for your place in it. And you'll learn to laugh a bit more at yourself and those around you. You may even start believing in magic. Magic that is invented in our minds and made real by our words and our pens. Magic that adds life to the human experience. Magic that touches even people like me who are strongly rooted in logic and objective truth...In the end, all I can say is, 'Wow.' This book is a masterpiece. -GeekDad What would fairies and mythical creatures think of humans? This gem of a book seeks to answer that question - and does so through gorgeous art nouveau illustrations and imaginative tales. You'll savor each page. -Refinery 29