Fairy Foals is a children's fantasy book by Suzanah
. It was released in 2006.
The Framing Device is that an artist inherits her grandmother's country house. While exploring its garden, she finds something extraordinary trapped in a spider's web- a tiny foal with moth wings. And he's not alone. This discovery shows her a new world- the world of the playful and enigmatic fairy foals...
This book includes the following tropes:
- Our Fairies Are Different: The fairy foals are essentially insects; they're hand-sized, have insectoid wings, and no magic. No adults of the species are shown.
- Samaritan Relationship Starter: The narrator theorizes that the foals stopped hiding from her after she saved one of them from a spiderweb.
- Weak, but Skilled: Little Brown learns how to build nests, something no foal has done before, because he's more vulnerable to gusts of wind than they are.
