A delightful ferry tale about a little boy who did not want to catch a car fairy, and his father who did. Beautifully illustrated by
a nine-year-old artist.
About ‘The Car Fairy’ story
Aavo [pronounced Ahvo] and his dad were getting ready to go camping on an island.
“Hey Aavo, tomorrow we catch a car ferry!”
“A car fairy? What’s a car fairy, daddy?”
“It carries cars across the water.”
In a very long queue of cars the next morning, Aavo silently observed,
“Do they all want to catch a car fairy? Poor fairies.”
And thus begins an illustrated adventure in which Aavo and his father reveal how differently we hear, read and understand language – and how our unique listening shapes our lives.
At the end of their holiday, returning home on a big, big boat, father and son were standing on the windy deck, watching a sleek, black cormorant with a long, black neck… Aavo felt happy.
“Daddy’s completely forgotten about catching the fairy!”
Author: Anne M Norman
Anne grew up on the Mornington Peninsula, in Victoria, Australia, has never been good at spelling, and always enjoys hearing words the wrong way. This story was inspired by her two-year-old nephew excitedly telling her about catching a car fairy from Sorrento (Australia) — although he strongly denied his aunt’s interpretation! Later, in a very long queue for a car ferry to Saaremaa Island in the Baltic Sea, Anne started to write.
Illustrator: Piper Carter-Williams
Piper decided to illustrate this story when she was nine years old, after hearing a family friend read it aloud, and not that long after learning the difference between “fairy” and “ferry”. Over the course of a couple of years she sent Anne many different drawings before choosing water-colour backgrounds with paper cut-outs tacked on. Piper always enjoys catching the Queenscliff ferry to visit her cousins.