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    A Field Guide to Elves, Dwarves, and Other Magical Folk
    A Field Guide to Elves, Dwarves, and Other Magical Folk
    A Field Guide to Elves, Dwarves, and Other Magical Folk
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    A Field Guide to Elves, Dwarves, and Other Magical Folk

    By Colin Ashcroft, Martín Bustamante, Jason Juta and A. J. Sautter

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    What is the proper way to greet an elf? Where is the best place to find fairies and sprites? What’s the difference between halflings and dwarves? These fantastic people and others may not be real, but what if they were? This handy field guide gives you everything you need to know about these magical people of the imagination.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateDec 21, 2015
    ISBN9781515730453
    A Field Guide to Elves, Dwarves, and Other Magical Folk

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      A Field Guide to Elves, Dwarves, and Other Magical Folk - Colin Ashcroft

      Table of Contents

      A World of Magical People

      Centaurs

      Satyrs

      Fairies

      Brownies

      Gnomes

      Halflings

      Dwarves

      Elves

      Dark Elves

      Merfolk

      Treefolk

      Legends Around the World

      Test Your Knowledge

      Glossary

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      Internet Sites

      Index

      A World of Magical People

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      ave you ever walked in the woods and noticed something moving at the corner of your eye? Maybe it was a squirrel running behind a tree or a colorful dragonfly flittering among the leaves. Or could it have been something more mysterious and magical? Maybe what you saw was a fairy, a gnome, or an elf hiding in the shadows. After all, many myths talk about magical folk living in a world hidden beyond our own.

      Could these stories be describing actual creatures? The truth is that elves, centaurs, merfolk, and other magical beings live only in our imaginations. Stories about them have been told for hundreds of years. Long ago people thought creatures like brownies or fairies were responsible for unexplainable events. Today we know these magical creatures don’t exist. But they’re more popular than ever. They show up in books, movies, TV shows, and

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