Anna L. (annalovesbooks) reviewed on
ISBN 0553486810 - Amazon lists this book for ages 4 to 8, the book says ages 6 to 9. I think Amazon's more likely to be right. Hard as it is to give a cute little kids' book about fairies, of all things, just 2 stars... there's no way I could possibly give it more.
Dorrie and her friends are fairies. Their class is going to be performing the "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" and it's going to be spectacular - IF Dorrie can manage to stop falling down, bumping into others and, for once, get the rainbow right. She's a bit of a klutz and wishes she could be as graceful as Laurel. Dorrie searches for an answer and, after getting bad advice from Laurel, discovers that her fairy godmother was right - not everyone can be good at everything and everyone has their own special talent. Dorrie figures out what hers is just in time and the performance goes off without a hitch, or at least without a BIG hitch.
Right off the bat, Mixed Up Magic bothered me with little things. Dorrie says the word "mess" in the presence of fairy dust and the dust makes a mess, because "Thoughts guided fairy dust." Since she then frantically cleans up, she clearly thinks about cleaning up... but the fairy dust doesn't follow THAT thought. Worse, Herman commits one of my pet peeves, referring to the floor as "the ground".
Mostly, this is just a cutesie book with nothing special to it or in it. All the cute little fairy references, while fitting the story, just annoyed me. As part of a series, it might interest your little girly-girl in reading, but there's so much better out there that I'd skip this one.
- AnnaLovesBooks
Dorrie and her friends are fairies. Their class is going to be performing the "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" and it's going to be spectacular - IF Dorrie can manage to stop falling down, bumping into others and, for once, get the rainbow right. She's a bit of a klutz and wishes she could be as graceful as Laurel. Dorrie searches for an answer and, after getting bad advice from Laurel, discovers that her fairy godmother was right - not everyone can be good at everything and everyone has their own special talent. Dorrie figures out what hers is just in time and the performance goes off without a hitch, or at least without a BIG hitch.
Right off the bat, Mixed Up Magic bothered me with little things. Dorrie says the word "mess" in the presence of fairy dust and the dust makes a mess, because "Thoughts guided fairy dust." Since she then frantically cleans up, she clearly thinks about cleaning up... but the fairy dust doesn't follow THAT thought. Worse, Herman commits one of my pet peeves, referring to the floor as "the ground".
Mostly, this is just a cutesie book with nothing special to it or in it. All the cute little fairy references, while fitting the story, just annoyed me. As part of a series, it might interest your little girly-girl in reading, but there's so much better out there that I'd skip this one.
- AnnaLovesBooks
