Disney Fairies: Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg

Loveeeee itttttttt since I was a baby! I'm almost 17 and I still love it! It's so beautiful. ( )

Loveeeee itttttttt since I was a baby! I'm almost 17 and I still love it! It's so beautiful. ( )

The artwork is beautiful, and Levine wrote a work of her heart, but the story itself is sub-standard (and certainly below her own standards) and the tie-ins to Peter Pan nebulous at best. Levine has imagined a world totally at odds with Barrie's invention, although it will unquestionably appeal to the generation raised on Disney's fairies. It does present messages of community, team-work, and encouragement suitable for elementary ages. (It was not published by Disney, but the illustrations, especially of Tinker Belle, are very close to the animated film.) ( )

Too much talking to the reader for my taste. Nice though. ( )

Cute, not wonderful but not bad. A little too much of the cutesy language (though as I recognize it from Peter Pan, I'm willing to give the book a little more leeway than usual) - the descriptions of Never Land and the clapping, in particular. The way a laugh becomes a fairy was nice, though - a little more thorough than in Peter Pan. Prilla is nice, if a bit hapless; the hurricane is weird (there's no explanation for why it's so malevolent); the quest is interesting, though rather contrived. The illustrations are gorgeous - Tink, in particular, is familiar from the Disney version; this version isn't _quite_ that, but she's perfectly recognizable and rather more...realistic, if you can apply that word to a fairy. Rani's sacrifice and reward are great. Vidia needs a shot from a clue-bat. Quite a few of the fairies are fully characterized, though many are just sketches - left for later books, I suppose. It was fun, I may well reread it, but it's not one of those books that make a difference to me. ( )