The Land of Stone Flowers: A Fairy Guide to the Mythical Human Being (Whimsical Books, Fairy Books, Books for Girls)

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Why I Wrote this Book Preface
Part 1: WHAT IS A HUMAN BEING BEING?
	The Inner Workings of the Human An essay
	Types of Human Beings Fairy Leotta Crispis’s speech
	What is a Human? From books Fairy Bibliomorpheya read in her dreams
	Where People Come From Vonteufel Bezalel’s comprehensive research
	About Humans, Big and Small From Fairy Saffir’s diaries
Part 2: THE MAGICAL WORLD OF HUMAN HUMANS
	About Human Objects and Residences From the notes of Bitzchapel VonSleepy
		Iron Insects
		Little Mind-Reading Cartons
		Stone Flowers
		Glowing Boxes
		Singing Spirits
Part 3: MORALITY AND CUSTOMS
	About Religion From Fitztootle Snobson’s travel observations
	The Topsy-Turvy World Excerpt from Fat Bigaroon’s interview with Lallapalooza Thinhorn in The Evening Grimuaria Grimuaria, Aromarch, 1967
	Vandermind Bradondon’s Rebuttal Letter to the editor of The Evening Grimuaria Grimuaria, 1967
	About Certain Human Beliefs Transcript from the archives of the Clinic for Untangling the Thoughts of Befuddled Philosophers
	Portraits of Wizards A story overheard in a garden urn
	Rituals and Customs Quotes from Kerr Plunk’s book The Life of the Most Commonplace People
		To beat sround the bush
		To let the cat out of the bag
		To bark uo the wrong tree
		Kick the bucket
		To cry over split milk
		A foot in the mouth
		Hammering Nails
		Gift horse
		On ice
		Make a Mountian out of a molehill
		Put out of mind
		Bear in mind
	Music As told
	About Humans’ Work From Fairy Halcion’s diary of observations on humans
	Dancing From Fairy Flamboya’s letter
	About Invisible Hats A note found
	What Makes Humans Laugh and Cry From The Encyclopedia of Unpleasantries
Part 4: THE HUMAN LANGUAGE
	Wakeful Dreams
	Metaphrasts
	The Language of Lovers
	The Language of Clothing
Part 5: CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE HUMAN WORLD AND THE GLIMMERING LAND
	About Veronika’s Hair, The White Elephant, and the Fog
	The Secret of Licinia’s Stolen Paintings Visiting Grideperle the Enamored
	Night At Fairy Elephantina’s Exhibit of Hatpoems
Dear Mr. Khaft
Elephantina's Story
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
About the Author
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