There are no dwarves, but there are fairies and an eagle, which is something. I will accept that one may wish to kiss one’s dead loved ones one last time, but there’s a far cry between that and riding around kissing random dead girls in the woods.) I Wish I Were a Fairy Tale, (ISBN 978-1-54394-632-1) Hardcover $21.99, 32 pages.Available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble as well as: iBook for $1.99.What the heck, it’s been awhile! Here’s an Italian version of “Snow White” that, in my opinion, focuses on the REALLY important question-namely, what in the name of God was Prince Charming doing mooning after a corpse? (The Disney version really glosses over this point. Walters is currently working on three additional works of children's literature. Walters splits her time between California and Hawaii. When she's not writing or baking, you can find her hoarding books, watching classic movies, and swimming in the ocean, where she has a funny habit of turning into a mermaid. A self-taught baker, she loves bringing stories to life through cake. Raised on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, children's author and illustrator Crystal Walters attended the University of San Diego where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in English. I complained to my mother that while I can sculpt sugar paste and carve out cake, I couldn't very well make a children's picture book out of cake. She said, 'Why can't you?' and the rest is history."Īsked if she ate all her artwork after the photography was done, Walters smiled and said, "Well, of course. "When I finished writing the story," said Walters, "I was thinking about how the book should be illustrated. I knew exactly how I wanted each page to look, from the chocolate colored tree stump where the fairies lived, to the cotton candy clouds where the unicorns played. A friendly dragon sits on a chocolate boulder with a slice cut out of it and sitting on a plate with a fork - just to remind us that it really is all made of cake. Every character is unique. The cascading braid of a princess's long blonde hair drapes over the main character's little dog, while a mermaid relaxes in a waterfall of frosting. The result is a charmingbook with remarkabledetail on every page.
Then every scene was meticulously photographed and laid into a beautifully illustrated background.
Walters painstakingly created nearly eighty sugar sculptures, each one acting out a part of the story. Each page comes alive in a series of wonderfully-crafted cakes. Fantasticedible characters swim in the sea, sail on a pirate ship, hang out on the moon with the sandman, and enjoy many other fairy tale adventures. The most remarkable thing about the book is how Walters chose to illustrate it. Children's author Crystal Walters, who confesses to having an obsession with fairy tales, has crafted a story about a young girl who dreams of what it would be like to live in one of the fairy tales she loves so dearly.
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