Product Description

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...

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...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56991 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

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.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
The colors of the forest became even deeper and blacker as they journeyed. The next evidence of sorrow they came upon was a tortoise that seemed consumed by grief. He was sobbing in agony and desperation, as though possessed by some terrible misfortune.

Again, Thistle and Snickers dosed out their laughter medicine, and the tortoise was relieved of the Spell of Sorrow.

Customer Reviews

Laughter and Fun, My Favorite of this Series so Far
Thanks to this series, I am now into fairies more than ever, and this is my favorite of the Fairy Chronicles series so far. The things that make up laughter are pretty cute, the hedgehog is really adorable, and the leprechaun is completely charming. Add the Christmas theme, and lavish food at the Fairy Circle, and come up with the perfect recipe for a fairy book. A witch, a gnome and a bird help the fairies along toward their encounter with the evil Killjoy Crosspatch. But the fairies, Mother Nature, and the sprites of laughter know how to deal with him. Good job.

Other fairy series that are also good in comparison to this one:
Tales From Pixie Hollow 4 copy Box Set (Disney Fairies)(Trouble for Tink, Lily's Pesky Plant, Vidia and the Fairy Crown, Beck and the Great Berry Battle)Keep in mind that this is Disney, very polished and perhaps a little too perfect and predictable, but still good.
Emily The Emerald Fairy (Jewel Fairies)For a younger set of readers than the Fairy Chronicles, but still a lovely series.
Fairy Realm #4: The Last Fairy-Apple Tree (Fairy Realm)For about the same age reader as the Fairy Chronicles.

"A True Treasure"
My daughter, eight, has devoured this book. She has read it three times and it currently holds the place of honor on her nightstand. I bought the book because of the unicorn on the cover, but it just goes to show that you can't judge a book by its cover. It is not a unicorn fairy story, but it is an amazing story. I snuck the book from the nightstand and read it myself in about an hour. I can understand why my daughter liked it so well. This is reminiscent of a classic story because it is told in a very traditional style of storytelling. It has just enough surprises to keep us interested, and amazed, but it is very seamless and slightly predictable, as are many fairytales. It doesn't talk down to children, which I very much appreciate in children's literature. I was lost in the adventure (and in the woods with the fairies) and found myself wishing to be a young girl again so that I could join them on their journey to find the Shell of Laughter. This book is much like a classic, which makes it a treasure in my opinion, largely because it is so fun and clever - laughter is spread on winds and is made of such things as the sounds of puppies barking, tickle feathers, and birdsong. The misc. magical characters form a nice ensemble for a memorable book that is one I know my daughter will always treasure and will probably read with her own daughter someday. Great book and I highly recommend it to anyone who loves children's literature.

Fun Story with a Leprechaun, Hedgehog, and Elf
This is a nice cast of characters for a fairy book. There is also a witch, unicorns, two kinds of gnomes (garden and wood), and a bobolink bird, which I thought was a made up kind of bird until I looked it up to discover it is real and is one of those birds named after the sounds it makes like a bob white bird. This really was nicely engaging and my nieces sat through the whole story without a break. It took us about an hour to read the whole thing aloud. They both want fairy wands and handbooks now. I'll have to see what I can do since I am the favorite aunt and can't let them down.

Both girls loved the hedgehog, Snickers, best in this story. But they thought that Tom, the leprechaun was cute too. Jenna, the oldest, told me, very seriously, that she always knew that real elves didn't wear pointy shoes or look like Christmas elves. The writer of this book does a good job of describing the characters. I could see them in my mind as I was reading aloud. Jenna is six and took the book to read to herself after we had finished it. She seemed to be getting most of the story right and sounding out the longer words. I am sending a copy of this book, along with the first two in the series, to my other niece in Kentucky. And when I have little girls of my own, I will read this book to them.