Title: The Fairy in the Kettle
Author: Pauline Tait
Artist: Debbie Bellaby
Genre: Fantasy / Weather / Homes / Fairies
Year Published: 2016
Year Read: 2017
Publisher: Matador
Series: The Fairy in the Kettle #1
Source: eARC (NetGalley)
Content Rating: Ages 4+ (Nothing Objectionable)
Buy on: Amazon // Book Depository
I
would like to thank NetGalley and Matador for
providing me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I went surfing around NetGalley
again for some new children’s books to read and I spotted this cute children’s
book called “The Fairy in the Kettle” which
is written by Pauline Tait along
with artwork by Debbie Bellaby and
this book was truly adorable to read through!
In the land of Bramble Glen,
there lives a village full of fairies and they all lived in various flowers
across the village. One fairy however,
who was called Leona, actually lived in an old round cast-iron kettle and she
loved her kettle home, despite the fact that the other fairies thought that the
kettle was too noisy on certain days.
One day however, a huge storm hits Bramble Glen and at first, the
fairies and Leona are unaware of the storm coming, but when the storm gets
worse, the fairies immediately try to find a safe place to hide from the storm.
Will the fairies survive the storm?
Read this book to find out!
Wow! I found this book to be so adorable and
inspiring as I not only found it interesting to read a fairy story where the
fairy in question lives in a kettle pot, but a fairy story that teaches
children about the importance of loving your home for what it is, no matter how
strange your home is. Pauline Tait has done a great job at
writing this story as I found the story to be extremely cute to read through, especially
since it involves fairies doing cute activities like dancing and living in
flowers. I also loved the message that Pauline Tait sends to the audience
about the importance of having a loving home, no matter how bizarre it is, as I
found the story about Leona living in a kettle pot and not caring about its
flaws to be truly inspiring! Debbie Bellaby’s artwork is truly
gorgeous to look at, especially of the images of the flowers surrounding the
fairies and of Leona’s gorgeous pink and purple dress.
The reason why I gave this book a
four-star rating was because I felt that the pacing was a bit slow in parts and
I wished that more had happened in the story besides the fairies mostly dancing
around in the story.
Overall, “The
Fairy in the Kettle” is a truly cute story about the importance of staying
in a home that is safe and useful to you no matter how different it is from
other homes. I would recommend this book
for children ages four and up since there is nothing inappropriate in this
book.
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