A Fairy's Guide to Disaster: Away From Whipplethorn, Book 1
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (790 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00BBTRYOO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 418 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Finally agreeing to let Matilda take some responsibility, her mother gives her a list of emergency procedures for babysitting. She's half a centimeter tall, invisible to the human eye, and hearing-impaired. Tiny fairies. Matilda Whipplethorn is about to get what she's always wanted, and it's a bad thing. When the mantel ends up on display in an antique mall, the security that Matilda always took for granted is gone. They tear her home, the fireplace mantel, right off the wall of Whipplethorn and Matilda's
"Lots of Fun!" according to R.A. White. This book was fun and well written, and I stayed interested throughout. I've never read fairy books or watched fairy movies, and I admit I didn't have super high hopes of getting an intelligent story, but the world was well defined and imaginative. Instead of being a 'save the world' story, it's about a few fairies that are separated from their parents when the building they live in is demolished. There's plenty of banter, bad guys, and good guys, as well as a bit of intrigue. The only thing that seemed off to me was the fairies' size. At one point I thought they were half a centimeter t. Fun book about fairies A Fairy's Guide to Disaster (An Away From Whipplethorn Book 1) by [Hartoin, A.W.]Matilda Whipplethorn has been asked to take on a big challengebabysit Gerald, the fairy nobody likes. As she tries to talk her way out of it, her mother shows her a list of everything that could go wrong and how to handle it. Unfortunately, the list does not include people coming into Whipplethorn Manor and taking her home with her, Gerald and her sister Iris included. The mantel that is taken has been her home for as long as she can remember, now these humans are taking it to an antique mall. Here it is pur. Cover is Misleading. Courtney Hancock I was very disappointed in this story, the cover and the name suggested something other than what we originally thought it was going to be. If my children were older, I believe that they could have gotten more into the story, but with the way that the "fairies" talked to each other we had to stop reading before we even reached the end.I am not saying that others could not read and enjoy this novel. I am sure that it would be a hit with the pre-teen to teen crowd; however, for my young children this was inappropriate due to the fact that the teenager characters were like actual teenagers