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So Supernatural
It was Barbara Newhall Follett's first novel, initially titled "The Adventures of Eepersip", about a lonely girl who runs away to find companionship in nature. After a fire destroyed the original manuscript, she rewrote and published it at age 12, receiving significant critical acclaim.
She rose into the air and hovering an instant over a great laurel bush, vanished. She was a fairy, a wood nymph. She would be invisible forever to all mortals, save those few who have minds to believe...
— Episode: DISAPPEARED: Barbara Newhall Follett
Episode: DISAPPEARED: Barbara Newhall Follett
It was Barbara Newhall Follett's first novel, initially titled "The Adventures of Eepersip", about a lonely girl who runs away to find companionship in nature. After a fire destroyed the original manuscript, she rewrote and published it at age 12, receiving significant critical acclaim.
She rose into the air and hovering an instant over a great laurel bush, vanished. She was a fairy, a wood nymph. She would be invisible forever to all mortals, save those few who have minds to believe, eyes to see.
A lonely little girl named Eepersip decides that her family's little brown shingled cottage is too restrictive. So she asks her parents to build a garden in their backyard and they do.
The New York Times fawns over Barbara's unbridled imagination. The New York World recommends it to anyone who appreciates, quote, beauty and good writing. The Saturday Review of Literature calls it almost unbearably beautiful.