{"id":10880,"date":"2007-06-04T10:55:27","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T17:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/06\/04\/fairies-mr-rico-zillions-of-em.html"},"modified":"2007-06-04T10:55:27","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T17:55:27","slug":"fairies_mr_rico_zillions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/04\/fairies_mr_rico_zillions.html","title":{"rendered":"“Fairies, Mr. Rico! Zillions of ’em!”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I am in the wrong line of business, and pursuing the wrong market in my writing endeavors (such as they are).  If I want to make it big in the writing biz, I need to hit on a big kids book series, like “Daisy Meadows” and The Night of a Million Zillion Fairies.<\/p>\n

Well, the series isn’t called that — I think the overarching title is “Rainbow Magic<\/a>” — but it’s actually a bunch of related series<\/a> — Katherine is drop-dead in love<\/em> with them — all about different themed fairy groups in Fairyland.  There were Rainbow Fairies<\/a> (“Heather the Violet Fairy”), then we discovered there were Weather Fairies<\/a> (“Goldie the Sunshine Fairy”), then she started jonesing for the Jewel Fairies<\/a> (“Lucy the Diamond Fairy”) … which, it turns out, aren’t being released until July.<\/p>\n

But wait!  There’s also the Pet Keeper Fairies<\/a> (“Bella the Bunny Fairy”).  And the Party Fairies<\/a> (“Cherry the Cake Fairy”).  But most of those those were published way back in the Dark Ages (2005-2006), and so are unavailable direct from Amazon.  I can buy them through third parties, but that starts adding up, shipping-cost-wise.<\/p>\n

On the horizon?  The Petal Fairies<\/a> (“Pippa the Poppy Fairy”)!  And maybe (since I haven’t seen them listed in the US) the Funday Fairies<\/a> (“Freya the Friday Fairy”)!  And there are, of course, various one-offs, some of which have made it across the Pond (“Joy the Summer Vacation Fairy”), some of which haven’t (“Paige the Pantomime Fairy”).<\/p>\n

(Minor trivia here:  In the republication from the UK to the US, “Saffron the Yellow Fairy” got renamed to “Sunny the Yellow Fairy.”  Shame; I was wild about saffron …  Meanwhile, “Izzy the Indigo Fairy” also got renamed, to “Inky the Indigo Fairy.”)<\/p>\n

These are all Scholastic books here in the States, hence the rapid churn.  (It’s Orchard Books<\/a> over in the UK.)  And, while it’s easy to make fun of the franchise, Katherine, as noted, adores <\/em>them.  Heck, she uses the books as paper doll equivalents (they were playing lots of games in the living room for a while, pairing off and engaging in who-knows-what hi-jinx). <\/p>\n

I’m afraid that, when it comes to buying books for my daughter, I’m not only an enabler, I’m the one offering her freebies.<\/p>\n

(It turns out “Daisy Meadows” isn’t just a pseudonym — it’s a writing company<\/em>, Working Partners<\/a>, who also have other series published and in the pipeline beyond “Rainbow Magic.”  The author\/books are wildly popular in the UK, and the Times of London <\/em>just ran (coincidentally) an article<\/a> about the franchise over the weekend — which has just been sold to the media conglomerate that owns Thomas the Tank Engine <\/em>and Bob the Builder<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Expect to see a kids show, I suspect, Real Soon Now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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