Wrote Laura Ingalls Wilder in "The Fairy Dew Drop." Wilder, best known for the Little House series that chronicles her childhood as a pioneer girl, wrote poetry, too, and this practical, hard-working woman also believed in fairies.

Her fairy poems, first published in a San Francisco newspaper, have now been collected in this small, colorful volume, brimming with Richard Hull's whimsical paintings of various kinds of fairies and their fanciful world of flowers and insects. Hull's quirky and animated art provides a tart accompaniment to Wilder's sugary vision of fairies who dance with sunbeams, "tuck their toes in cloudlets" and turn into a "rainbow in the sky!"