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The item never arrived, but the seller responded quickly to my email, assumed it was lost in the mail, and at no additional cost to me sent another one.
I'm not gonna do a summary becaue other reviewers hve already done a good job with that. As far as I know, Disney fairies can't reproduce since they are born fully grown from baby laughs. Please. She's not a main character in the book and the incident is brushed off in like 2 sentences but to a little girl or boy it might be quite jarring. Do they really need to read about romance this early on in life.Besides the two points above, this was a pretty good book. If you are planning to read this book to your child you might want to watch out for it and skip those sentences. I just wanted to say,PARENTS BE FOREWARNED:There is a scene in the book where a fairy dies by drowning. And I felt it completely unnecessary to include themes like jealousy, romance and unrequited love in a book aimed at 5 year olds.
(Or not. If I had a kid I probably wouldn't censor the book and just be like 'Well the fairy died because Tink, Ri, Rani and Vidia were selfish.' or something like that).Another qualm I had was the love-triangle between Tink, Terrance and Peter Pan. Let these girls enjoy being children. I like it better than the one about the egg.
That's as far as we got - I refused to read more. This is perhaps the worst "children's" book I have ever come across. Now I know why the book was in the bargain bin at a close-out discounter. The story is meandering and hard to follow, and the dialogue style - awkward and awful. I don't want to be reading to my 5 yr old about mean mermaids, "good" characters that readily break promises and fairies drowning in floods. I wouldn't even donate it and subject some other child to this dreck. This will be the first book I've ever thrown away.
I purchased this for my 10 year old daughter. She really enjoyed reading this book. She read through the entire book in less than a week.and wanted to read more of the same. No regrets in the purchase.
Tinkerbelle wishes for Peter Pan to fall in love with a clam shell.The fairies get carried away with wishes and they all get `wand madness'. She is threatening to flood Neverland, unless the fairies get her a wand. When the fairies sneak in and take the wand from the mermaids, the wand is in a dream state. The wandies are willing to give up the wand to help save Fairy Haven.
Will she be able to control the wand, without getting wand madness, again. The wandies decide it would be best if they put the wand to sleep.Each fairy is allowed to have one wish, on the way back to Fairy Haven. One fairy wishes to have wings, so she can fly, and then turns around and wishes for Soop to be her friend. Fairy Haven and the Quest for the WandBy Gail Carson LevineSoop is a mermaid in Neverland. It took awhile before I realized I was reading about Tinkerbelle and Neverland. Soop makes it so her friend cannot speak, or read, the friend wishes that Soop can't be heard.
The wand makes the fairies grow and shrink, grow and shrink. Tinkerbell tries to tame the wand.
I think it would be best to read Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg, first. Tinkerbelle, and the other fairies are sent on a quest to get a wand from the Great Wandies.
Will the fairies be able to return to their normal size. This means, they can't stop using the wand.
The magic of fairy dust has always been enough for the fairies, until the wand takes over.The mermaid, Soop, turns one fairy into a bat, by singing her song, before she can warn the mermaid that wand wishes are permanent. How can the fairies return the wand and return to their calm, peaceful kingdom.Although, this book is very fast paced and exciting, at first, it was a little hard to follow.
Jill Ammon Vanderwoodauthor: Through the RugThrough The Rug: Follow That Dog (Through the Rug)
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