A SALINE woman has published her newest children's book about fairies and the importance of imagination. 

Fiona Lowry, who grew up just outside of the village, took inspiration from her own kids to write Meeting Pip.

It tells the tale of Harris who doesn’t believe that fairies are real but when his older sister sees something new on the oak tree, she sets out to prove that they are.

Only then do the fun conversations begin with Pip the fairy, and the children start to see the world in a whole new way.

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She told the Press: "Growing up it was really just my brother and I and we just played together ourselves. 

"Of course, we had friends from school that would come in to visit but 90 per cent of the time, and especially at the weekends, it would just be us because mum and dad were busy tending to the multitude of animals we had or fixing the Land Rover. 

"David and I would just play ourselves and make up our own games. It was just full of imagination. 

"These were the 80s and 90s and there was no technology like there is today.

"For me it was just a perfect childhood and that very much comes into most of my stories so far, of using your imagination and just enjoying being outside.

"The actual story itself, Meeting Pip, is based on my children and although our garden is an awful lot smaller than the one I grew up in, we had a little fairy door."

Through the little fairy door in her garden, Fiona's kids wrote back and forth to their own fairy, Pip. 

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On the message of the book, Fiona explained: "Imagination and being aware of your surroundings and appreciating what's around you. 

"Pip's message at the end is; you have found me because you opened your eyes to the world around you. 

"So there's a couple of little messages woven through."

Meeting Pip will be available to purchase on Amazon from October 13, to get your kids a copy of this magical tale, click here.