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I really, really, loathe these trash books. Every bloody story the same asinine crap...
If I never hear about Kirsty and Rachel again it will be too soon.

And the thing that frustrates me the most?

There are so many of them.
Every time we go to the Library DD chooses approximately ten to fifteen of these books, and there appears to be no sign of them running out, in fact DD informs me that there are new ones being written all the time!

<wrings hands>

I know it is just a phase and she won't still be reading these books when she is twenty but WHY WHY WHY won't she get something different for a change? (and I know the answer to that too, seven year old girls, stubborn, yadda yadda yadda).

AIBU. But I don't care. I hate them almost as much as I hate Enid Blyton. Which I drove my own mother insane with as a child .

I am glad she enjoys reading but I just wish she had never been introduced to these. Cautionary tale: Avoid Rainbow Fairies!

NO.
Maybe, though, you should just let the magic find you......

You can't see my expression, Mackerel, but I look like one of those tiresome goblins.

YANBU, I hate them too. They do make an impressively big haul to send in to the Christmas bazaar when they are outgrown though.

lol, I agree OP
but please don't hate enid blyton!!!

DSD went through a massive phase of these til last year (she's nearly 12). I kept thinking, FGS read a decent book!

But it's better than not reading anything... and yes, *this too shall pass*... she's now reading the diary of Anne Frank!

Creators.

They're written by committee.

I hated them even more once I knew that.

Cynical.

YANBU.

I insist that for each one of them we read, we then read something "proper".

I had a fleeting moment of being pleased about those Fairy books. Suddenly dd got interested in reading, so that was 'a good thing'.

But lord the supply in endless and it's always the same story different name. They are the Borg of the fairy world.

I think we just outright banned them in the end and thankfully dd moved on.

We do the same as Bucharest. Tedious beyond belief. On the other hand dd (now 5) is highly motivated to improve her reading so she can read them to herself in the car...so not all bad.

We have managed to avoid these so far but I can see them looming on the horizon. Have put my foot down tho early and refuse to read crap to dd. If she wants them read she can do it herself. I only read books that both of us want to read like Roald Dahl, Dick King Smith(those these are palling on me a bit) and Michael Morpurgo.

I discovered that Nancy Drew/Hardy boys was written like that too. No wonder they were so awful.

It'll be animal ark next FalafelAtYourFeet

Nodding at both the OP and Shaun. We've gone through the Fairy's and AA. Luckily my dd adores reading and will now choose other things. She did have a huge Enid Blyton phase, the secret 7 were her favourite. She and a friend would call each other old thing and chummy, it sounded very odd.

Yep, Daisy Meadows is a team.
No wonder they're knocking them out quicker than we can read them.
A couple of sets would've been quite enough. It's getting a bit silly now with sporty fairies/party fairies/magic fun day fairies blah blah blah.
yanbu

they are truly shite. ditto Magic Puppy/Kitten which imho should be put in a sack and chucked into the canal...

Try a Famous Five after one of these- it reads like fucking Tolstoy

Barry I heart your name

<<wishes had thought of it first>>

Thank you SpringHeeledJack

I was properly chuffed when I thought of it!

Absolutely agree. A scheme to separate little girls from their money! (After our kids had bought a few, we banned them from buying any more, but they still brought them home from the library regularly.) Oh, and I hate the way that a book is not a complete story (you have to buy 7 to get the complete story, totalling around 20 quid), and also I hate that they have the first chapter of the next book at the end to get you hooked.

And they are totally derivative, there is nothing original in them at all.

Daisy Meadows isn't a regular team.
Each book is written by a different author in the house style.
I know lots of authors who do this type of writing to support their 'real' writing.
Not unlike ghosting.It's quite easy and pays reasonably well.
Other series that do this are Beast Quest, Astrosaurs, Popstars.

I am on a mission to devise such a series

Dd has several of these books and I am tryuing to steer her away from them now a little as at age 8 and a strong reader I feel she needs more of a challenge occasionally.

But how do you all know that the plots are the same etc. Dd reads them. I certainly don't!

YANBU

drive me crackers

DD1 loves these books. She reads them to herself so i haven't had to suffer them much!
She loves looking for them in the charity shops.

Look at the selection of fairies!
DD1 also loves the website!

Just don;t read them to your DD and turn off whent hey are discussing it.

IMO I don't care what DD is reading, so long as she enjoys reading and books. But I don't have to listen or read them myself.

DD has a few of the Fairy books but actually she isnt that "into" them and is currently enjoying reading some of my sister;s older books like My Naughty Little Sister and Naughty Amelia Jane.

I'm annoyed that there is one with DD's name on which someone will inevitably buy her. There is never anything with her name on except these monstrosities

If it were my business I'd knock one out for the top 100 fave girls names.

rofl at Litchick wanting a piece of the action!