The Fairy Book

By Svetlana Kovalkova-McKenna

A delightful fantasy-adventure-in-rhyme about a very cool girl named Isabel who loves coffee, punky stuff, her pet iguana, and hates going to ballet class. There are fairies to lend a helping hand and a dark sorcerer Rashkai to battle. Will she complete the Fairy Book in time for...
A mix of many poetry styles, the book by Alexandra McKenna and S. Kovalkova-McKenna is funny and entertaining!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Svetlana Kovalkova-McKenna
• Release date: Sep 11, 2009
• ISBN: 9781452395623

Svetlana Kovalkova-McKenna

Svetlana Kovalkova–McKenna has studied Journalism and Broadcasting at Moscow State University in Russia and has a Liberal Arts Degree from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. She is a writer, an artist and a member of Nashville Artist Guild, mother of three, and a believer in fairytales.

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The Fairy Book

Alexandra McKenna, Svetlana Kovalkova-McKenna

The Fairy Book

Copyright © 2009 by Alexandra McKenna, Svetlana Kovalkova-McKenna

Smashwords Edition

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission of the author.

Long live Young Poets Societies!!!

Also, thanks to baby-sister Cecile-Katya for all the help and inspiration!

Introduction

Once upon a time, during the summer of 2008, I was teaching my children and their friend a poetry seminar. The goal was to learn about different styles of poetry and to try our hand at writing it. We wrote haiku, senryu, ballads, cinquains, quatrains, couplets, clerihews, limericks and studied all about classic forms of English verse.

After about a month, I decided to give them each a big project to work on - a story in rhyme that had to include all the poetry styles we studied. I called

Reviews for The Fairy Book

[virginiagill · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I absolutely love how this book came to be, a parent sharing their love of poetry with their child. It was a delightful read and one I can't wait to share with the young people in my life. Many thanks to the author!

[darcia_10 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The Fairy Book is a wonderfully entertaining story about a girl named Isabel who is chosen by the fairies to fight off a dark sorcerer named Rashkai. The story is written in various styles of poetry, which combine and flow beautifully. In writing this story, Svetlana Kovalkova-McKenna teams up with her 9-year-old daughter Alexandra. Alexandra’s illustrations are interspersed throughout the story. At the end of the book, Svetlana has included examples of all styles of poetry written by Alexandra. Both The Fairy Book story and the variety of poetry had me smiling as I read. The world Svetlana and Alexandra created is imaginative, captivating, and just plain fun. This mother-daughter duo is a talented pair and an inspiration for all of us.