SECONDS The Faerie Queen's Creed. A Children's Ode to Mother Nature. Animist Picture Book. Handmade Book.

I'm offering a big discount on copies of my books with minor imperfections. Imperfections vary from a glue stain somewhere to a tiny scuff on the corner or a mistaken needle hole hidden in the binding. No big rips or major defects, I'm just too much of a perfectionist to sell them at full price. Unlike my other books these will ship free in an economy mailer, not in my usual protective stiff mailer.

Homage to Mother Nature!

“I am the hum of a thousand bees.
I am the quiet between the trees.”


What does it feel like to stand next to a bush vibrating with bees? What is that calm that tingles over our skin when we step away from the sound of traffic, and into the quiet between the trees? The Faeries know. Do you?


I am so pleased to present: The Faerie Queen’s Creed. Each little 5x7 inch copy contains a poem and 22 black and white fine art illustrations drawn by yours truly. I have the pages printed professionally on high end paper by an employee-owned US printing press before binding them together by hand myself. I will happily write an inscription if you request one in the "notes to the seller."


This Ode to Mother Nature is born of my deep desire to help children (and inner children) overcome the severing disembodied nature of our modern screen-driven individualistic lives, and to remember the magical aliveness of what it felt like to be in our ancestor’s bodies. Our ancestors knew that everything has consciousness and lived as a part of, and in relationship with nature, rather than on top of it. In the distinctly Animist Irish Faerie Faith of some of my ancestors, Faeries are not just tiny people who can fly (though that is also true). “Faerie,” is a place, a realm, a capricious entity, and a way of behaving. There is little to no separation between Faeries, nature, and the underworld (ghosts). The woods have always been their domain. All cultures seem to universally believe in unseen beings of one kind or another, who exist in an unseen realm that surrounds us. We label and manifest them differently from place to place and culture to culture, because the land shapes us and our experience. While I could not resist drawing a few of my beloved ancestral Faeries into this book, my main objective was simply to depict and evoke the amazing magic of being in the woods on a sensory level. Faeries are beautiful to look at, but what if we could be one? What if we could remember that nature is not just a cause, it's the ecstasy of being alive?
Much Love,
-Annie