Title: Bad
Fairy
Series: A Bad
Fairy Adventure (Book One)
Author: Elaine
Kaye
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Genre: Fantasy
Middle Grade
Length: 66 pages
Age Range: 8-12
BLURB: Thistle Greenbud is not a bad fairy. She
simply doesn't like rules, and it's just her luck that her homework is to
create a new rule for the fairy handbook. But first, she has more important
things to do. Like figure out how to get back at Dusty and Moss for playing tricks
on her.
Before she can carry out
her plan, though, disaster strikes and she finds herself working alongside the
very fairies she wanted revenge on. Can they work together and trust each
other, or will things go from bad to worse?
BUY LINKS:
What do fairies eat?
They enjoy honey and
anything drizzled with the scrumptious, golden syrup. Wild berries of every
kind—blackberries, blue berries, strawberries, etc.—are a favorite. Fairies
have a big sweet tooth and make their own cakes, candies, and cookies.
If you have butter, you
may want to keep a lid on it, because fairies love the yellow, creamy dairy.
They also like proteins such as chestnuts and acorns and seeds (pumpkin seeds
and sunflower seeds). Of course, they like fruit.
As for what they like to
drink, they enjoy a cup of nectar, teas from any flower, and milk. If you want
to attract some fairies, leave out a bowl of milk.
In Bad Fairy,
Thistle’s favorite meal is Cabbage Patch Stew, which is a stew full of
tomatoes, cabbage, and Kidney beans. Rose, one of Thistle’s best friends, loves
artichokes and trades clovers for spinach and artichoke salad, which upsets
Clover, another friend, who loves clovers, of course.
Do you like cauliflower?
Because Thistle’s dad does and will eat a plateful of it.
For breakfast, Thistle
likes blueberry pancakes and pomegranate juice, while her parents have coffee
made from chicory.
Dillweed biscuits,
mushroom sandwiches, and dandelion salads are more favorites among the fairies
in Pinecone Grove.
There’s even a unique
cookie mentioned in Bad Fairy—chocolate chip sunflower seed
cookies. Um!
EXCERPT:
I wander into the
kitchen. A sweet smell touches my nose. Cookies! Tumble is in the kitchen
wearing an apron. She takes a baking sheet out of the oven, filled with
chocolate chip sunflower seed cookies.
“Hi, Mom. It sure smells
good, Tumble.” She hands me a warm cookie that I eat in about three seconds
flat.
Mom gives me a cup of
cranberry juice before I choke. “Tell me about Mrs. Swirl. I’m so thankful you
found her.”
“I am, too. She’s doing
better and should get out of the hospital in a day or two. Her house is
completely gone, but I heard that she plans to move to Gravel City with her
daughter.”
“I think that would be
best for her, especially since she’s getting older. One needs to be around
family.” Mom sits down at our table with pen and paper. “Tumble, let’s plan our
dinner for tonight. I want to make enough to give to our neighbors in need. I
do appreciate all the cookies you have baked today.”
“Me too,” I say as I
grab another.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Elaine Kaye is the
author of A Gregory Green Adventure series. She first created
Gregory Green after her son, who loved her homemade pea soup, thus inspiring
the story Pea Soup Disaster. Bad Fairy is her
middle grade debut and the first of A Bad Fairy Adventure series.
Kaye has worked as a
library assistant and teacher’s assistant in elementary schools in the Sunshine
State. She currently lives in Florida, but she has called Michigan; Honolulu,
Hawaii; and Okinawa, Japan home. She is a grandmother of three boys.
This is an adorable story. You really want to read it.
My Review
BAD
FAIRY
Bad
Fairy Adventures Book 1
By
Elaine Kaye
Now
how can a fairy be bad? They are kind and helpful and loving. Right? In Author
Elaine Kaye’s story, Bad Fairy, we learn a lot about the world of the fairy.
Thistle is not a happy fairy. Why? Because she has to
go to school to learn how to be a good fairy, since she is considered to be a
bad fairy. To make matters even worse, the teacher gives them homework for the
weekend. She claims it will keep a lot
of them out of trouble. They are to write a new rule for Fairy Land and the
student who writes the best rule will have it published in their Book of Rules.
And it’s not just the students writing the rules, the whole town is involved. As
I read how each fairy deals with the situation, I learned a lot about them. I also
learned more about the club rules, which might be good for any club. When a twisty occurs (like a tornado) the
good fairies and the bad learn to work together.
Each character is an individual with his or her own personality.
The author has done a nice job of making them seem almost real, perhaps like
children you know. This is a fun story for young readers, who might have some
of the same thoughts as the fairy characters do.
I recommend Bad Fairy for young readers and for those
who love fairies and their world, no matter their age.
