Disaster has struck Fairyland! Jack Frost has stolen all the jewels from Queen Titania's ... more
crown. Each stone controls a particular aspect of fairy magic. Without them the fairies can't use their magic fairy dust or make pictures in ponds of water. They ...
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Advantages: girly girls will like it, not as bad as some books coming in such collections Disadvantages: money-spinning emptinesss
DaisyMeadows is a pen name for a consortium of authors who produce the endless series of "RainbowMagic" sets of fairy books. All the books bear the rainbow logo. Slightly confusingly, the first set of seven books was about the RainbowFairies.
As for now, the franchise covers more than 80 books in sets, each comprising seven books, plus several one-off specials (usually connected with holidays or Christmas. Everything below applies to all the books in all the sets in the whole series, although obviously some books are marginally better or worse than others.
Altogether, it's an admirable entertainment franchise - and a provider of rather vacuous reading material to beginner female readers. There are worse things (don't get me started on the Tiara Club), but there is also many immeasurably better books.
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magdadh 31.03.2009 (01.04.2009)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Daisy Meadows
Advantages: Magical Storyline, Lovely pictures, easy to read Disadvantages: Flimsy paperback publication and is part of a series
All the books in the rainbowfairies series are aimed at a reading target group of girls aged 4-8 years old. This is about preschool to year 3 when they are just getting to know the basic structure of sentences and learning to recognise the longer words. These books are really great for any glitter girls to encourage them to read as the storyline and the appearance of the shiny cover motivates them to pick up the book and explore the pages.
I shall be reviewing this second book in the series: Amber the orange fairy.
COST: £3.99
FORMAT: Paperback
PUBLISHED: may 2003
PLACE OF PURCHASE: Waterstones
PUBLISHERS: Orchard books
AUTHOR: DaisyMeadows
PAGES: 80
Cover:
An attractive shiny front cover with a watercolour themed cartoon of Amber the orange fairy on the front and ocre orange clouds pattern which extends to the backcover ...
Advantages: magical storyline, lovely characters Disadvantages: flimsy cover, pictures not in colour inside the book
COST: £3.99
FORMAT: Paperback
PUBLISHED: may 2005
PLACE OF PURCHASE: Waterstones
PUBLISHERS: Orchard books
AUTHOR: DaisyMeadows
PAGES: 80
Fourth book in the RainbowMagic series, fern the green fairy. Kirsty and Rachels collection of fairies is growing and as the numbers increase so so the number of problems they are encountering. This installment is no disappointment, the adventure continues as yet another delightful fairy is added to the characters list.
Cover:
Argh, horrid paperback which soon creases and looks extremely tatty - making one wish I had invested in some sticky back plastic so I don't feel all grubby when I pick the manky things up and put them back in the bookshelf.
Story:
Rainbowmagic series tells the tales of Fairyland which is home to seven colorful sisters. Together, they are the RainbowFairies ...
