In fact, Mab's mother named her after the Fairy Queen because she is so fascinated with fairies. They have little fairy furniture, decorations all over their apartment, and even fairy lights in the bathroom. Mab doesn't exactly understand it, but she is aware that fairies make her mother happy, especially since her father has been gone. Mab's teacher presents her a book about Victorian fairies when she arrives at school on her birthday wearing a brand-new fairy garb. She reads it aloud to her mother and younger brother Robin and is astonished to discover that the illustrations don't resemble the cute fairies she had imagined. But the biggest surprise of all comes from a little object that emerges from the book's pages. A fantastical, engrossing tale about