Product Description

Illustrations By: Tara Larsen Chang

Inside you is the power to do anything

The Web of Dreams has been destroyed and every night more and more nightmares are slipping into people's dreams!

Jennifer, or Dragonfly to her fairy friends, is chosen to lead a fairy team to discover what happened to the Web and rebuild it immediately. To do so, they must make a dangerous journey, hunt down the Dream Spider and convince him to weave away the bad dreams.

But the Dream Spider is far away, and danger might be much closer than they think ...

What if you discovered you had magical fairy powers? Meet the girls of The Fairy Chronicles, otherwise normal girls like you who are blessed by Mother Nature with special gifts. Their extraordinary adventures will change the world!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #295360 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

From the Publisher
Magic surrounds us, though we can't always see it. Gnomes add color to the plants in our gardens, doves deliver our good dreams, gremlins occasionally break our things and Mother Nature keeps the balance between the light and the dark. But just because you can't see something doesn't mean it can't hurt you.

Luckily, Mother Nature has blessed some otherwise ordinary girls with an extraordinary gift: in addition to being girls, they have been granted a fairy spirit, each one as unique and beautiful as the girls themselves, each as wild and powerful as their counterparts in nature. Watch Dragonfly zoom by with the speed of her namesake, or witness Firefly use the incredible light that shines within her. Each fairy spirit is a powerful gift granting the girls who use them the ability to do amazing feats. But with power comes responsibility and the fairies might have the hardest of job of all: to protect Mother Nature and us, even though we don't even know they existed. Until now...

From the Author
The Fairy Chronicles is a series of modern fairy tales full of magical creatures, both good and evil, and heroic characters who participate in dangerous missions to protect nature and fix serious problems. Ideal for all ages, reading levels ages 7 to 12, the stories include a diverse set of fairy characters and a wide variety of other magical creatures such as trolls, brownies, witches, dwarves, gnomes, elves, unicorns, goblins, wizards, dragons, ogres, magic gargoyles, gremlins, demons, nymphs, giants, and many more.

Each story has some sort of problem to be solved such as recovering the stolen Shell of Laughter, helping to break an evil curse, solving the mystery of the Magic Snowglobe, rescuing kidnapped bat fairies, trying to locate missing human shadows, or helping a dragon complete a dangerous quest. Characters and readers learn interesting things such as why fairies fear jigsaw puzzles, what the trolls’ favorite foods are, how dragons are born, why the flamingo stands on one foot, the reason human beings have a shadow, what the grasshopper uses buttons for, where courage comes from, how hope is spread around the world, and what causes nightmares. The Fairy Chronicles are stand-alone books and can be read in any order.

Visit fairychronicles.com for more information about the series.

About the Author
J.H. Sweet has always looked for the magic in the everyday. She has an imaginary dog named Jellybean Ebenezer Beast. Her hobbies include hiking, photography, knitting, and basketry. She also enjoys watching a variety of movies and sports. Her favorite superhero is her husband, with Silver Surfer coming in a close second. She loves many of the same things the fairies love, including live oak trees, mockingbirds, weathered terra-cotta, butterflies, bees, and cypress knees. In the fairy game of "If I were a jelly bean, what flavor would I be?" she would be green apple. J.H. Sweet lives with her husband in South Texas and has a degree in English from Texas State University.

Ever since she was a little girl, Tara Larsen Chang has been captivated by intricate illustrations in fairy tales and children's books. Since earning her BFA in Illustration from Brigham Young University, her illustrations have appeared in numerous children's books and magazines. When she is not drawing and painting in her studio, she can be found working in her gardens to make sure that there are plenty of havens for visiting fairies.

Customer Reviews

Lovely Continuation of the Fairy Adventure
In this second installment, the fairies take a trip wih the Sandman to look for the Dream Spider. The Spider is needed to rebuild the Web of Dreams to catch our nightmares. A reappearance of a gnome full of fabulous gardening information and excited about an upcoming gnome convention adds simple charm to the book.

Human interest segments are added to this book. Marigold worries and questions her bravery. Dragonfly is dealing with insomnia. Brownies are trying to control their pranks because they need the fairies' help.

The fairies are girls who live real lives too. The magical fun of this book will appeal to readers who love fairy tales and fantasy. The reality based parts if the story will probably appeal to those who normally don't like fantasy books. This is a clever fairy tale that will appeal to a wide range of people.

Unique Vision of Fairies
This is a very unique vision of a fairy world. In reading this book, I see fairies in a whole new light. However, I believe the writer does embrace traditional fairy tales and has built her work on the same value premises of classic writings with regards to good vs. evil, doing the right thing, treating others well, etc.

The trolls are very unique, and not much like the trolls of folklore, other than the avoidance of sunlight. The trolls in this story are almost loveable. I wonder what this author might do with a giant or a centaur to make those characters unique.

I look forward to reading more in this series.

The Second Adventure
This is the second adventure in The Fairy Chronicles Series. Nightmares are running rampant and the fairies must discover why to fix the problem. Brownies and gnomes make another appearance in this book as they did in the first. The fairies meet trolls this time when they are very close to the Dream Spider's lair. The Sandman plays a part in this book, a very interesting part. We loved this fairy adventure that had the girls soaring on birds, defending themselves against evil spirits, and fixing things in the magical realm to make our world right again. Plenty of fun and magic with a little important stuff thrown in too. I am referring to nature facts and a push for recycling. I recommend this book for people who love fairies, magic, nature and all around good children's books.