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Time to Fly.


Time To Fly

Barbara Lanza

Moo Press, Inc.

6 High Street, 2nd floor, PO Box 54, Warwick, NY 10990-0054

0972485376 $19.95 1-845-987-7750 www.MooPress.com

Barbara Lanza has created the elegant, elaborate, enchanted en·chant  
tr.v. en·chant·ed, en·chant·ing, en·chants
1. To cast a spell over; bewitch.

2. To attract and delight; entrance. See Synonyms at charm.
 world of Fairy fairy, in folklore, one of a variety of supernatural beings endowed with the powers of magic and enchantment. Belief in fairies has existed from earliest times, and literatures all over the world have tales of fairies and their relations with humans.  Lane, the home of Petals, a fairy child who has the honor of sprinkling fairy dust on the baby fairies on a particular evening. It's an important responsibility because while baby fairies are born with wings, they cannot fly without the magic fairy dust. Petals (who tends to be a bit messy mess·y  
adj. mess·i·er, mess·i·est
1. Disorderly and dirty: a messy bedroom.

2. Exhibiting or demonstrating carelessness: messy reasoning.
) is in a bit of a panic--she can't find the all-important pouch pouch (pouch) a pocket or sac.

abdominovesical pouch  one formed by reflection of the peritoneum from the abdominal wall to the anterior surface of the bladder.
 of fairy dust! Young readers will be focused on the pages of this superbly, wonderfully illustrated picturebook story as they follow Petals in her efforts to search all around Fairy Lane for the missing pouch. Time To Fly is an impressive, original, and enthusiastically recommended picturebook addition for family, elementary school elementary school: see school. , and community library collections--and leave young readers eagerly looking forward to future adventures of Petals and her friends on Fairy Lane!
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Date:Oct 1, 2005
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