Sunday, March 22, 2009

The Fairy Chronicles by J.H. Sweet - Book 1 & 2


Marigold and the Feather of Hope, the Journey BeginsBooks Completed: 68
Completion Date: March, 2009
Pages: 128
Publication Date: May, 2007

Reason for Reading: New Author Challenge.

Illustrations By: Tara Larsen Chang

Inside you is the power to do anything

Meet Beth, who's just discovered something incredible... she is a fairy, a marigold fairy, to be exact.

But Beth must learn to be a fairy during an emergency! The Feather of Hope has been lost and Beth must enlist the aid of her dog, Peanut, in a daring mission to rescue it from a house occupied by dangerous gremlins. And if Beth, her new fairy friends and Peanut can't get the Feather back, all hope will be lost...forever.

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!
This all comes down to curiousity. When I was looking up a graphic novel on the computer, the first book in this series also came up as one of the results. I suppose I really didn't know all that much about it, but the library had the first two books and I decided to take a chance and give it a read. This book was just cute. There really is not much more I can say about it. Even the artwork in it is cute. I liked Beth. She was a sweet kid. She had always dreaded spending time with her aunt, but on this visit she learns that she is not who she thought she was! She's a fairy and this is about her first adventure after her discovery of her special gift. Sweet has found a way to take many different kinds of paranormal creatures and put them together into one book. We also meet gremlins (sort of), brownies, and gnomes. Marigold is Beth's Fairy name. Concluding thought is back to where I started, it was a cute book!

Dragonfly and the Web of Dreams

Books Completed: 75
Completion Date: March, 2009
Pages: 128
Publication Date: May, 2007

Reason for Reading: Continue on with the Series.
Illustrations By: Tara Larsen Chang

Inside you is the power to do anything

The Web of Dreams has been destroyed and every night more and more nightmares are slipping into people's dreams!

Jennifer, or Dragonfly to her fairy friends, is chosen to lead a fairy team to discover what happened to the Web and rebuild it immediately. To do so, they must make a dangerous journey, hunt down the Dream Spider and convince him to weave away the bad dreams.

But the Dream Spider is far away, and danger might be much closer than they think ...

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!
The second book in the series takes place a couple months after the first book. The summer is drawing to an end. This is the story of Jennifer. She is one of Beth's friends. They met at a Fairy Circle when Beth first found out that she was a fairy and have been friends ever since. The girls are spending a Saturday afternoon together when an emergency strikes and a special Fairy Circle is called. Jennifer, Beth, and two other girls find themselves travelling to collect the Dream Spider because the Dream Web has been destroyed and the most horrible dreams are allowed to get through. This means that the girls have had terrible nightmares almost every night. Another cute book. Jennifer is a little fireball. She would be an interesting character to watch grow up!

While I find this series fun, these are the only two books the library has in the series, so I will have to decide in the future if I want to carry on. They are not the sort of books I feel a grand desire to buy, but I would like to read more about their adventures.

2 comments:

  1. How sweet! I would have loved these as a kid.

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  2. They were sweet. Totally library books, though, not something I would want to buy!

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