Fabulous Fairy Stories

When Pish and Posh discover fairy magic, they face a series of wacky surprises.

Best friends and beginner fairies Pish and Posh receive encouragement from the Monster Under the Bed as they each try to make four wise wishes in order to earn their wings.

Farm girl dreams of marrying a prince, but when her fairy godmother does not arrive, she decides on a local farmer instead, and does not regret her decision.

In Ireland, a young girl who cannot sing, dance, or control her temper stumbles across a faerie village, where a beautiful boy asks her to name her three wishes--but does not promise to grant them for her.

Illustrations and rhyming text portray the different residents of fairyland and where each one goes to sleep.

With the help of fairies, Seamus the farmer and his scrawny goat win top honors at a festival in Killorglin, Ireland, and receive a lifetime supply of books.

Annabelle finds a family of fairies in the cement and weeds, and they sing and dance for her when she gives them tea.

Nata, the fairy, acts oddly on the first day of summer and the other small insects and animals soon discover the reason.

At bedtime, a mother tells her curious child about the things that fairies do, like hang the stars in the evening sky and care for the toys that children have lost.

A mischievous elf plays a prank on a slow-witted giant.

In an adaptation of the children's song, the good fairy tells of her efforts to make the naughty bunny behave and what happens when these efforts fail.

Mavis tries to pursue her goal of playing fairy godmother and granting wishes to those around her, but she finds the process trickier than she thought.

When three boastful magicians try to outdo one another, they create a problem that can be solved only when they work together.

After finishing her ballet class, Ella Bella listens to music from Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty ballet and is magically transported into the story where the ballet takes place. She meets all the story's characters and she watches as the legendary tale unfolds before her very eyes.

When Willa announces her career goal to be a fairy princess her family and friends are skeptical, until the day she makes a real-life rescue.

Sidney Rella becomes a football player with a little help from his fairy godfather.

Everyone in Aran Village believes in fairies — everyone but Finn the tailor. When hens don’t lay or cows dry up, the villagers blame the fairies, and take extra care not to anger the creatures. Finn just laughs. “What foolish superstitions!” he declares. When King Bertrand announces a royal ball to find a wife for his son, Finn's talents as a tailor are in great demand. But much to his amazement, it’s not just the girls of the kingdom who need new gowns! How can he keep these mischievous new customers happy? Finn’s comical efforts to stay in the fairies’ good graces make for a lively and delightful story.

When tooth fairy Edith B. Cuspid finds her friend Bernice Sparklestein, a fairy godmother whose work is legendary, having a very bad wand day, she tries to cheer her up by suggesting Bernice try other fairy jobs.

Takes the reader on a journey to look for signs of fairies living nearby, from hiding places in tulips to a lookout post in a tree.

Alice, who claims to be a Temporary Fairy, still has a lot to learn, such as how to make her clothes put themselves away in the closet.

All Henry wants is a cat, and when the mountain fairy finally grants his wish she grants a wish of her own at the same time.

Beloved characters from classic nursery rhymes collaborate to bake the most amazing birthday cake. "[T]he artwork adds to the brief text in a playful manner that invites participation...Preschoolers who know their nursery tales and Mother Goose rhymes will want to linger on each page and identify every member of the crowd...Fun for reading aloud to one child or many - the more, the merrier." - Booklist

A fairy helps Wendy Woolcoat, a sheep who is usually happy just to eat and sleep, realize her secret dream of flying.

Samantha, the smallest of the mouse children, thinks she needs a fairy godmother to protect her from her rougher brothers and sisters.

Patrick's peaceful life with his mother is disrupted when the fairies steal her.

One Halloween night a fairy child befriends a human child and together they explore each other's worlds but neither wants to give up his or her own home.

Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a busy elf, engaged in an alphabetically appropriate activity and surrounded by objects beginning with the same letter.

Although Elly hates being a fairy, she tries her very best to do well at the Mossy Blossom Academy for Young Fairies, since her parents have told her that another expulsion would mean no Fairy Licence.

When Tamisin discovers that she is half fairy, she decides to find out more answers directly from the fairies themselves, including her mother, the fairy queen.

A rebellious fairy named Tiki, already in trouble for breaking the rule against wearing jeans, risks the further wrath of the Fairy Queen by trying to fulfill a human's special request for help.

The adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up.

When twelve-year-old Birdie goes to meet her grandmother, who is estranged from Birdie's mother, she learns a secret which leads to fantastic adventures, new understanding, and a renewed closeness among members of her family.

After mistakenly burning down his own cottage, Fairy Nuff finds that not only are the Widow Buhiss and some African ants after him, but also that the Queen urgently needs his help.

When the Grace children go to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they discover a field guide to fairies and other creatures and begin to have some unusual experiences.

In 17th century London, Coriander, a girl who has inherited magic from her mother, must find a way to use this magic in order to save both herself and an inhabitant of the fairy world where her mother was born.

Joyce the fairy has the adventure she has always dreamed of when she joins forces with a human princess to rescue the unicorn stolen from Swinley Forest, placing the forest and its fairy community in grave danger.

Philippa Fisher is just your average 11 year old. But that changes when Daisy, her fairy godsister, enters her life.

After a hurricane injures the fairies' godlike Mother Dove, whose magical feathers and precious egg are of powerful importance to both fairies and Neverland itself, it falls to newcomer Prilla and two companions to set things right.

In this humorous retelling of a Perrault tale, the fairy Ethelinda rewards one twin sister for good behavior and punishes the other for bad, only to discover that her punishment is more pleasing than her reward.

The good-natured son of a baker wins the heart of a princess, with the help of a fairy and a magic goose.

While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.

Gretta, who is making strides in her fairy godmother training, tries to help Morgan fit in at her new school as research for a book about her interactions with humans, but her own boyfriend problems get in the way.

In 1558 while imprisoned in a remote castle, a young girl becomes involved in a series of events that leads to an underground labyrinth peopled by the last practitioners of druidic magic.

"The Fairy Caravan" is the story of a miniature circus, William and Alexander's Traveling Circus. It is no ordinary circus, for Alexander is a highland terrier and William is Pony Billy who draws the caravan. Beatrix Potter wrote this chapter book for older children towards the end of her writing career. She wrote it for her own pleasure and at the request of friends in America who shared her love of the Lake District and north country tales.

Jessie returns to the magical world where her grandmother was born, where she deals with some griffins, dances with fairies, and borrows something to help her dance in her school concert.

When a little girl from the human world becomes lost in the magical Realm, Jessie's only hope of finding her is the wand of a brilliant but reclusive magician, and if she succeeds she must still face Mrs. Tweedie, who is up to no good.

During her most recent visit to the Fairy Realm, Jessie inadvertently allows a baby fairy to be captured by water sprites who want to hold the child captive until their missing moonstone is returned.

Nine-year-old Ruthie is introduced to a magical fairy world when her father hires a new babysitter, Alice.

When the Web of Dreams is destroyed, Jennifer and her friends once again need to transform into fairies so they can contact the Dream Spider who is on holiday.

After her parents divorce and she moves to the country with her mother, fourth-grader Willa Jane, anxious and unhappy with the changes in her life, discovers a world of little people called Nutfolk living in the woods around her new home.

Taken from eighteenth-century Finland by her father, teenager Eleni eventually finds a home in Scotland, receiving help along the way from brounies, fairies, and other creatures she has the ability to see and talk with.

After being kidnapped by an ugly toad, a beautiful girl no bigger than a thumb has a series of dreadful experiences before meeting a fairy prince just her size.

In her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect, Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper.

Explains what fairies are, explores folklore about them. Also explains the different types of fairies and fairies in literature.

"A creative book, which folds fairy tales into a cookbook of kid-friendly recipes . . . Yolen retells them with her usual verve and ease . . . the resulting dishes, as well as Beha's spare, whimsical spot illustrations, will capture children's fancy. Detailed marginalia greatly enhance both the folktales and the food sections of this charming offering that the whole family will appreciate."--Booklist

Readers can take a trip into a magical realm filled with toadstools, dragonflies, and of course, flying fairies. With Kathy Ross's latest book in the Girl Craft series, girls can create their own fantasy land with 22 crafts made with no-cost or low-cost materials. With scissors, glue, and ruler, they can fill their world with magic wands and fairy costumes!

A collection of stories and poems about fairies, including an excerpt from James Barrie's "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens," Hans Christian Andersen's "Thumbelina," and Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market."

A collection of poems by a variety of authors about all types of faery folk including trolls, gnomes, ogres, pixies, and many others.

An illustrated version of the nineteenth-century poem about the "little men" and the mischief that they do.

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