Fairyland in Art and Poetry

. Henry Holt & Company, $16.95 (40pp) ISBN 978-0-8050-7006-4

Richard Doyle's (1824-1883) fairy-infused chromolithographs first greeted viewers in the 1870 edition of In Fairyland: A Series of Pictures from the Elf World. Now, Fairyland in Art and Poetry: From the Metropolitan Museum of Art pairs Doyle's popular artwork with poetry by the likes of William Shakespeare, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Eleanor Farjeon and Langston Hughes in a handsome keepsake edition. (Apr.)

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