Pr., 2015) xiii + 227 $24.95 Laurence Talairach-Vielmas, Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture and Melanie Keene, Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain join join a well-established body of scholarship on the Victorian fascination with folklore, fairy belief and various forms of fairy narrative - from Richard Dorson's landmark book The British Folklorists: A History (1968) to Molly Clark Hillard's recent Spellbound: The Fairy Tale and the Victorians (2014). In Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture, she turns to canonical works of children's literature (such as Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, Mary Louisa Molesworth's Christmas-Tree Land, and Edith Nesbit's Five Children and It); periodicals for adults (The Strand) and for children (primarily Aunt Judy's Magazine, Boy's Own Magazine and John Newbery's Lilliputian Magazine); classic fairy tales (by Charles Perrault, the Borthers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen) - as well as lesser-known science education texts that draw with surprising frequency on discourses associated with magic, fantasy, and fairy. In some cases, popular science texts suggest that works of natural history could well replace traditional fairy tales as the favored reading material of early childhood, as is the case in the 1863 English edition of Louis Figuier's World Before the Deluge (51).