Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand by Gail Carson Levine
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Book Reviews of Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand
Book Review: Fairy Haven and the Quest For The Wand -
Summary: 5 Stars
My Grandaughter is six and absolutely loves this book! She is thrilled with the illustrations and the fact its a hard cover book to add to her memorable collection. Her classmates all talk about this book!Book Review: No regrets
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this for my 10 year old daughter. She really enjoyed reading this book. She read through the entire book in less than a week...and wanted to read more of the same. No regrets in the purchase.Book Review: A Fairies Fan
Summary: 5 Stars
My children love the book. I like the imagination the book created for the children.Book Review: Wand Madness
Summary: 4 Stars
Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand
By Gail Carson Levine
Soop is a mermaid in Neverland. She is threatening to flood Neverland, unless the fairies get her a wand.
Tinkerbelle, and the other fairies are sent on a quest to get a wand from the Great Wandies. The wandies are willing to give up the wand to help save Fairy Haven. The wandies decide it would be best if they put the wand to sleep.
Each fairy is allowed to have one wish, on the way back to Fairy Haven. One fairy wishes to have wings, so she can fly, and then turns around and wishes for Soop to be her friend. Tinkerbelle wishes for Peter Pan to fall in love with a clam shell.
The fairies get carried away with wishes and they all get `wand madness'. This means, they can't stop using the wand.
The magic of fairy dust has always been enough for the fairies, until the wand takes over.
The mermaid, Soop, turns one fairy into a bat, by singing her song, before she can warn the mermaid that wand wishes are permanent. Soop makes it so her friend cannot speak, or read, the friend wishes that Soop can't be heard.
When the fairies sneak in and take the wand from the mermaids, the wand is in a dream state. The wand makes the fairies grow and shrink, grow and shrink.
Tinkerbell tries to tame the wand. Will she be able to control the wand, without getting wand madness, again? Will the fairies be able to return to their normal size? How can the fairies return the wand and return to their calm, peaceful kingdom?
Although, this book is very fast paced and exciting, at first, it was a little hard to follow. It took awhile before I realized I was reading about Tinkerbelle and Neverland. I think it would be best to read Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg, first.
Jill Ammon Vanderwood
author: Through the Rug
Through The Rug: Follow That Dog (Through the Rug)
Book Review: Better than the 1st book but has it's disappointing moments.
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm not gonna do a summary becaue other reviewers hve already done a good job with that. I just wanted to say,
PARENTS BE FOREWARNED:
There is a scene in the book where a fairy dies by drowning. She's not a main character in the book and the incident is brushed off in like 2 sentences but to a little girl or boy it might be quite jarring. If you are planning to read this book to your child you might want to watch out for it and skip those sentences. (Or not. If I had a kid I probably wouldn't censor the book and just be like 'Well the fairy died because Tink, Ri, Rani and Vidia were selfish.' or something like that.)
Another qualm I had was the love-triangle between Tink, Terrance and Peter Pan. As far as I know, Disney fairies can't reproduce since they are born fully grown from baby laughs. And I felt it completely unnecessary to include themes like jealousy, romance and unrequited love in a book aimed at 5 year olds. Please! Let these girls enjoy being children!!!! Do they really need to read about romance this early on in life??
Besides the two points above, this was a pretty good book. I like it better than the one about the egg.
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