Books Kids Will Love RATING: BBBBBook: Ruby The Red Fairy (Rainbow Magic Fairies chapter book series)
By: Daisy Meadows
Recommended for ages 5-9
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My daughter Bella, who is entering first grade in the fall, is obsessed with fairies. I bought her this book last month as school got out for the summer. I thought we would try this chapter book series just for fun summer reading. (The first book - Ruby the Red Fairy, is available at a reduced price $2.99. That's a good thing as many girls, from what other parents have told me, get hooked on this series and each book costs $4.99 thereafter.) There are seven books in this first fairy series - Rainbow Magic fairies - with more series to come, according to Scholastic.
The series is set in Fairyland, home to seven colorful fairy sisters. In this first book, two non-fairy girls (Rachel & Kirsty) discover the Ruby the Red Fairy in the pot at the end of the rainbow, while on vacation.
In this book, and in each subsequent book, Jack Frost and his goblins do as my daughter puts it "something mean" to the fairies.
In this series, Frost whisks away all the Rainbow Fairies and the two girls must find each and return them to the pot.
In this first book, Rachel and Kirsty finds one fairy but there is no conclusion until your daughter reads all seven books in the series.
The girls are warned by the Queen Fairy if they do not find all seven Rainbow Fairies, Fairyland is doomed to be colorless!
This book and the rest of the series will NEVER be classic literature and will unlikely be found on a school system's summer reading list, but if your daughter loves fairies and is reluctant to read, these books will get her to LOVE reading. Trust me.
Unfortunately, for advanced readers, these books can be read in 1-3 days.
The good news, is many girls like to re-read these books.
This is not a read aloud book. Many parents I talked to find the book and the rest of the series terribly boring! The book and the rest of the series, has a very limited vocabulary and little to no plot. But then again, the books are for kids! (Seriously, think about the books and magazines you read as a parent at the beach or lake!)
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Scholastic
Released in May 2005
80 pages, 6 chapters
$2.99, paperback
