Froud cites the early influence of Rackham, "in particular, [Rackham's] drawings of trees that had faces", as sparking his interest in illustrating fairy tales, and describes having had a love of nature from childhood that has informed his style.

This is the book that influenced Jim Henson to recruit Froud's help with the movie The Dark Crystal.E' uno dei libri più ricchi, dettagliati e completi sul piccolo popolo e le illustrazoni di Alan Lee e Brian Froud sono strabilianti. In 1976, Froud was featured in Once Upon a Time: Some Contemporary Illustrators of Fantasy, a survey of modern British illustrators. The same year, his concept art for the film was published in the companion book The World of the Dark Crystal.

More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. The authors have neglected to establish a point of view: jumbling the scholar's "it is believed" with the believer's "it is" and the satirist's implied "it ought to be" they have not taken their subject seriously, and have left fairies neither mythic, magic, nor figmentary". I'm grateful to this because at a young age I saw the interconnectivity of books and other creative endeavors because of it.You can really see the affection that he has for his subjects and the paintings have a certain rawness to them that later paintings do not have. After reading this, I've been able to recognize a lot of different mythical creatures in other works that I would not have otherwise. The illustrations reminded me of something but I couldn't put my finger on it till I read some of the other reviews of this book. J. Hogan’s 2003 live-action film Peter Pan; [28] and as a concept artist on the 2016 Disney film Pete's Dragon. A review in The Atlantic Monthly praised Faeries as a "pretty book" with "lavish, colorful illustrations", but found its text lacked the "sly satire that distinguished Gnomes.