Fairy Spell: How Two Girls Convinced the World That Fairies Are Real

This picture-book account tells the true story of cousins Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright, whose 1917 photographs appeared to show fairies in a garden stream. After borrowing a camera, the girls produced images that prompted questions from their parents and wider public attention. Their photographs eventually reached Arthur Conan Doyle, who believed in fairies and coauthored an article featuring them. The book follows the growing debate over whether the images were genuine or an elaborate hoax, and considers people’s willingness to believe what they see.