To wish that the creator of the Rainbow Fairies books had never been born?

[FalafelAtYourFeet]

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!



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!

[bibbitybobbityhat]

I put my foot down over rainbow fairies and told dd she couldn't have them. Had a thread about it on here and loads of Mumsnetters told me I was a meanine. I don't mind, I pick my battles and this was one battle I was determined to win .

[bibbitybobbityhat]

Litchick - its already been done for boys = Dinosaur Cove.

[Rockbird]

Would be easy Litchick, just change the names to boys and where it says fairy put gremlin etc. You could use the same books and stories. Job done.

[Litchick]

And on the assumption that the boys won't actually read em, my team could knock em out overnight.

[piprabbit]

I'm waiting for the stationery series in which Paulette the Paper Clip fairy and her friends Rhodda the Ruler fairy and Enda the Eraser fairy have a series of exciting adventures attempting to retrieve magical items stolen from the stationery cupboard by the goblins.

[paisleyleaf]

I'm glad you shared that quote piprabbit.

[Turniphead1]

There are 234,456 Rainbow Fairy books in print and another 236 currently in pre-production at present. FACT!

[Kitkatqueen]

Oh god somebody shoot me!!!!!

[Bumperlicious]

'I know it is just a phase and she won't still be reading these books when she is twenty'

You say that OP, but at 28 I am currently rereading a whole bunch of Sweet Valley High books that I found at a school fete! Awfully written but great nostalgia value

[FalafelAtYourFeet]

They just don't seem to run out. I assumed that once she had run through the library's selection she would start on something else, but it doesn't seem to have happened yet!

[DBwidow]

It's great knowing that I am not the only Mum that hates these books. My five year old loves being read them at bedtime.

Try Skating School by Linda Chapman, covers most things that little girls like & they are not so boring to read.

[FalafelAtYourFeet]

I have tried so hard to suggest anything else, I have bought other books, tried to encourage other books at the library. Am met with stubbornness and negativity.

However, ultimately, although they are intensely annoying, I have to pick my battles so I CBA taking it further than that.

This too will pass.

[FalafelAtYourFeet]

Hide them now before she has the chance!

[TheFirstLady]

I had to read DD3 some of Lauren the Puppy Fairy last night. The story opens with our heroines admiring a display of giant marrows, carrots and onions at a village show - held at Easter.

[FalafelAtYourFeet]

Were there goblins disguised as children/farmers/marketgoers?

[LC200]

My dd reads a lot of these (I get them from the charity shop and then they go back there when she's finished.) Luckily she is able to read them herself - there is no way I'd read them to her! I like to read something to her that she wouldn't get if she read it herself - we're currently reading Mrs Pepperpot to her - there are too many archaisms for her to read it alone but she enjoys it if these are explained to her.

Rainbow Fairies are fine by me - they give me peace and quiet! I think the important thing is that kids are reading - it's not really all that important what it is. I studied English Lit at Oxford and read virtually nothing but Enid Blyton, Danielle Steele, Virginia Andrews and Sweet Valley High until I was about 17!

[TheFirstLady]

Probably Falafel but I didn't get that far. DD3 is 7 and a very fluent reader but still likes to be read to at bedtime - my deal is that I will read the first one or two chapters of a Rainbow Fairy book and she can finish the book herself.

[barbarianoftheuniverse]

They will never run out while you lot keep buying them! I know one of the editors- she takes them very seriously, her stamina is amazing and she is perfectly prepared to cast into fairy form every branch of world knowledge, culture, legend and art.

If you are interested, you can see who had a hand in perpetrating the individual stories. If it says in the front, for instance, 'Special thanks to Philip P' that was Philip Pullman's contribution to the cause.

[Strawberrycornetto]

My DD who is 5 loves them. I got her the annual for Christmas and it turned out to have lots of extracts from books but no complete stories in it. I was really cross, I thought that was quite blatant exploitation, not a real annual at all. We also try to avoid them now.

[Jux]

They are vile formulaic rubbish. Similar to the Potter stuff, imo. Quite loathsome.

However, dd loved them once and is a fantastic reader.

[Nidsnay]

Let's face it - the committee are not going to stop writing Fairy books until every single girl in the land can buy one with their name on it.

Not sure dd (6) even likes the stories that much. She does always choose them at the library but then tires of them very quickly when we (I) read them - perhaps it's the lightning speed I whizz through them.

Plus the phrase 'eyes shining' that's used all the time in the Fairy books really gets on my nerves for some bizarre reason - Enid Blyton used it a lot as well and I find it disproportionately twee and irritating.