Stories About Fairies and Fairy Wrens? 🧚📖🎤

My granddaughter turned one year old this month and among other presents I bought her I gave my son this book to read to her when she is a bit older, as my grandmother was named Lillian and I have had some strange fairy wren encounters in my life that I can tell her about when she is a lot older ... God willing.

Unfortunately, I don't have the fairy wren painting pictured below that I wrote about in the 2014 post below, as I gave it away, and I don't have the wedding ring, either, but that's another story I'll be able to tell her about when she is much older, hopefully:-) 

The Elusive Bluebird of Happiness?

The book was donated to the Op Shop I volunteer at part time and the "book angel" sent it my way I like to imagine, so I bought it to give to my own granddaughter.

Unfortunately, it has a message in the front of the book to Scarlett from her grandparents who gifted her the book in 2012 (the year the world was going to end according to the Mayan calendar, remember?-).

I can't say that I'm into fairies, but I am into birds and fairy wrens.

The Fairy Wren stepping out
to greet me at Port Arthur

Hit Me with Your Best Shot

I have a few more books I found in the Op Shop to give my granddaughter for when she is a bit older, but I'm going to read them myself first:-)

Trent Dalton's Boy Swallows Universe
wins the Top 100 Books countdown

On the subject of fairy wrens and blue birds, I've always wondered where Trent Dalton got the idea to use a fairy wren hitting a window in a novel and he has never said where the idea came from (to my knowledge) until I heard the host of the ABC Book Show ask him in a recent podcast episode, which aired on the radio about a week ago.

The Book Show

I still suspect Trent may have stumbled across a certain Brisbane blog when researching blue fairy wrens and blue birds hitting windows, as it seems a bit too coincidental to me, but who knows?

I'm glad to help if he did, but only Trent really knows where that idea came to him from?

It's not like I was ever going to write a book like Trent's anyway.

Superb fairywren

Only the male fairy wrens are blue, so if the bird in the book and Netflix series was meant to be a female bird it should have been greyish, not blue.

Who knows where authors get their ideas from anyway?-)

The Synchromysticism of Gravity Let Me Go? 🏡🌏🦍🎈