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Can Flower Fairies be boys? My girls say some of the pictures in Cecily Mary Barker's book look like boys! And, I guess they do. Are there boy fairies?
I can't believe I'm asking this! 
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Of course! How else would we get those cute little baby fairies?!
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I guess I always thought of fairies as GIRLS, but this whole "fairy-concept" is new to me!
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well ... and "fairy" in relation to males is not always a praiseworthy thing
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Not at my house. The very suggestion would elicit horror. No way, uh uh, nope, nadda.
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Midsummer Night's Dream, anyone?
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OK, they'd give you that one. They like MSND.
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"THERE HAS TO BE BOYS!
how else will the girl fairies Marry?!
Can you tell I have a six year old girl?
its all about weddings right now! 
She loves sound of music - she gets to be a Nun and get married and have cute kids too! 
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Yes, some of them are definitely boys! Just look at Bugle for example. I think the boy ones are called elves though.
(As a random aside -- I give my girls 'fairy sandwiches' to encourage them to eat them as they hate sandwiches -- ie just tiny, tiny triangles. Just to respect my son's masculinity, he gets 'elf sandwiches' -- also tiny, but rectangular )
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Of course there are bot fairies.... I am with Theresa we have boy fairies and girl fairies regurarly spooted over here
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ELVES! THAT'S what they are! 
The boys are called ELVES! Not Fairies!
I knew there was something wrong with a "boy fairy"
Well, I certainly am glad we have THAT settled!
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doris wrote:
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That is so funny! We used to have our sandwiches cut 'Cowboy style' - rectangular, or 'Indian style' - triangles. Oh, the differences between being raised in the wild west of the US and Britian!
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I'm glad someone else said the elves. I didn't have time yesterday to post to this thread, and since I'm not savvy in the ways of fairies I wasn't sure. But I kept thinking, "Aren't they elves?"
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Oh, no. Elves are altogether different things! If elves were boys, then how do we explain Arwen and Galadriel, who are clearly elves and not fairies?
No wings=elf
Wings =fairie!
Puck Lost and Found
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Lewis Carroll
Puck has fled the haunts of men;
Ridicule has made him wary:
In the woods and down the glen,
No one meets a fairy!
Cream! the greedy Goblin cries
Empties that deserted dairy--
Steals the spoons and of he flies
Still we seek our Fairy!
Ah! What form is entering?
Love lit eyes and laughter airy
Is not this a better thing,
Child, whose visit thus I sing.
Even than of fairy?
Or, How about this one?
In Fairyland
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Joyce Kilmer
The fairy poet takes a sheet
Of moonbeam, silver white;
His ink is dew from daisies sweet,
His pen a point of light.
My love I know is fairer far
Than his, (though she is fair,)
And we should dwell where fairies are,
For I could praise her there.
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Well, if they can't be called elves, then no little fairies will be visiting this house anytime soon.
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Well, how about "sprites"?
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marihalojen wrote:
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One thing to consider is that generations ago, when poems like the Flower Fairies were written, the word "fairy" did not hold the same connotation that it does for society today. I am sure several of the flower fairies are indeed boys - the more mischevous ones, naturally!
Because I have all boys, I don't think we've been exposed to the fairy phenomenon that is going on at toy stores and on tv. So for us, fairies are not necessarily feminine - they are magical, impish creatures that fly. They're funny little things to laugh at, but certainly not emulate - boys or girls.
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Jenn, remember the fairies in Shadow Castle--Mika and his brothers? Nothing unmanly about them!
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My boys (9) +(5) love making fairy houses in the garden. And this week after looking at some Elsa B?(forgot rest of her name...too early in the morning!!)they have been making these cute little felt and pipecleaner fairy/elves. There's a mother,a little old lady with a walking stick and a fuzzy green boy one who looks like he couldn't stop being naughty! They made them all for me to go on my bed-side table......Oh and these are the same boys who love light-sabre fights with older brothers and make up the most gory games with their plastic soldiers(sigh)
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