Books About Fairies for Young Adults

Ever since I was a little girl, I have believed in fairies. I used to pretend that I was a fairy, frolicking through the woods and playing with my fairy friends. As I grew older, into my teens, I became obsessed with all things fairy - fairy figurines, fairy spells, and books about fairies.

Fairies exist now to inspire creativity and wonderment in children, but also in teens and young adults. Books about fairies for young adults are easy to come by, but many are not up to par on the levels of imagination and sophistication for the young adult.

Read on to learn of some of the best books about fairies for young adults on the market today. Join me in a world where fairies exist and fill our minds with sugarplums and mystery. You might just find that the fairies have been waiting to pull you into their realm...

Brian Froud is and has been one of my favorite fairy artists since I've been a teenager. When I first ran across one of his books about fairies for young adults, I was working at a thrift store at the age of eighteen. I was getting ready to graduate high school and had just had my heart broken for the first time...and, lo and behold, one of the donations that we acquired that day contained a book by Brian Froud among the junk surrounding it.

That book by Brian Froud was "Good Faeries Bad Faeries", and I fell in love with it immediately! Not only was I inspired and in awe, it also made me forget about my heartbreak for a few moments. That's what reading is supposed to do for you, and books about fairies? Well, they'll help you to forget those woes for even longer!

Brian Froud has illustrated and helped produce many artsy books about fairies for young adults, including: The Goblins of Labyrinth, Brian Froud's World of Faerie, and How to See Faeries. Don't pass up a chance to learn the beautiful and twisted world of the faeries and buy a book by Brian Froud today. Trust me, you won't regret it.

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books have become well-known over the past hundred years as true fairy tale classics. He has written dozens of books, but the twelve fairy books stick out in everyone's minds as the most brilliant and intricate.

The Fairy Collection by Andrew Lang consist of twelve books of fairy tales, collected and written by a man who was Scottish and knew much about the folklore and stories of Scotland since he was a child. Growing up in a place like Scotland will be sure to imprint images and stories of fairies and the otherworld on one's mind...and that's just what it did to Andrew Lang. Books about fairies for young adults should most definitely include Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, not only because they are classics but because there is much to be learned and discovered about the world of the fay from Andrew Lang's works.

As you've seen, fairies are a wonderful thing to read about and to discover through the written word. In addition to the classics and artsy books about fairies, there are also many fictional works written for teens and young adults on the market today.

Check out some of Amazon's selection for young adults & teens, simply by doing a search for "fairies". You will find a whole pixie-dust sprinkling of novels and fictional works about fairies for young adults that you'll be sure to find intriguing.

Good luck and may the good faeries bless you!