Books by Mary Losure and Complete Book Reviews

The Fairy Ring: Or
The Fairy Ring: Or, Elsie and Frances Fool the World
Mary Losure. Candlewick, $16.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5670-6
In 1920, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published photographs in the widely read Strand magazine that he believed proved the existence of fairies. The pictures had been taken a few years earlier by two cousins, nine-year-old Frances Griffiths and 15-year-old
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Isaac the Alchemist: Secrets of Isaac Newton
Isaac the Alchemist: Secrets of Isaac Newton, Reveal’d
Mary Losure. Candlewick, $19.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-7636-7063-4
In this charming biography of Isaac Newton (1642–1727), Losure (Wild Boy) posits that “this last sorcerer—this greatest of all alchemists—was the same man who banished magic from the scientific world.” Portrayed as an uncommonly inquisitive, albeit...
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Wild Boy: The Real Life of the Savage of Aveyron
Wild Boy: The Real Life of the Savage of Aveyron
Mary Losure, illus. by Timothy Basil Ering. Candlewick, $16.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5669-0
Believing her subject “deserves to be remembered as more than a case study,” Losure (The Fairy Ring: Or How Elsie and Frances Fool the World) brings life to the true story of a boy discovered living wild in southern France near the end of the French
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