Experiments in flight

I've been trying to do a photo like this for a while. I don't think it's quite right yet, but it's getting there. Further experiments will no doubt ensue.

The flying books are actually all The Red Fairy Book, which has one of my favourite fairy-stories, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, in it. I'm not sure why it always appealed to me so much, but it did. Although I re-read a couple of the other stories when I got hold of this copy recently and had terrible nightmares. I was clearly made of sterner stuff when I was nine...