‘Fairy Adventures – The Ouevre’

Since “entering the fairy realm” (becoming Fairy Poppilina), I have provided regular storytelling in two bookshops [Lesley McKay’s Bookshop, Woollahra, SYDNEY and The Potts Point Bookshop, Potts Point, SYDNEY],  as well as touching down in preschools, daycare centres with my imaginative and fun session, as an incursion provider in schools (Fairytale education, Harmony Day and Book Week).   I have also had the pleasure of sprinkling fairy magic at various private fairy parties.  I am now relocated to the Gold Coast and, although I continue to ‘touchdown’ in Sydney, I am now servicing the Gold Coast, Brisbane, Northern NSW, Toowoomba, Cairns areas + beyond (thanks Coffs Harbour for having me this year).

I have been privileged to also offer my fairy services beyond schools, public libraries and childcare centres and private parties to visiting two women’s correctional centres and providing literature and nursery rhyme fun to incarcerated mothers and their young children. It was heart-warming, to say the least, especially when I saw children and mothers enjoying ‘The Bear Hunt’ and reading this together after I had presented it.  I was also a special guest at Queensland Government House and the NSW State Library.

I just see no end to ‘story magic’ and the power of literature and imagination.  I relish my role as a children’s storyteller/fairytale teller/entertainer because I believe in storytelling as a powerful art form and the need for simple fun.

And . fairytales .. such a beguiling paradox:  ‘Familiar but mysterious, earthy but ethereal, lucid but absurd.  They seek to illuminate greater truths via the dark woods of our consciousness.  But more than anything else, they fire our imagination, having crept into our collective psychoses as bedtime scriptures from an imaginary time and place’.