Ruby the Red Fairy

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The tale type is also attested in the East Slavic Folktale Classification ( Russian: СУС, romanized: SUS), indexed as type SUS 426, "Две девушки, медведь (волк) и карлик" ("Two Girls, the Bear/Wolf and the Dwarf"), but only in Russia and Ukraine. Join the two best friends as they meet Ruby the Red Fairy, the first fairy to introduce them to the world of Rainbow Magic. She flutters over the amazed girls’ heads, then thanks them for freeing her, introducing herself as the Red Rainbow Fairy, Ruby.

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At that moment, Ruby’s colour begins to fade from the effects of Jack Frost’s spell, which cannot be undone unless all the Rainbow Fairies are together. They seem to all go about like this: two friends are doing some typical childish activities like camping, celebrating a holiday, etc when some bad fairy messes things up, so the title good fairy joins up with the girls to save the day. Snow-White and Rose-Red are two little girls living with their mother, a poor widow, in a small cottage by the woods.When summer comes, the bear tells them that he must go away for a while to guard his treasure from a wicked dwarf. There are also colored Rainbow Magic books for younger readers, which are also published by Scholastic. Indeed, that appears to be the oldest variant; no previous oral version is known, although several have been collected since its publication in 1818. Georgie Ripper was born in London and is a children's book illustrator known for her work on the Rainbow Magic series of fairy books.

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While sheltering under the ferry’s roof, Rachel spots a dark-haired girl her age looking at the sky and slips back outside to see what the other girl is looking at: a bright and beautiful rainbow. The books are ghostwritten by a number of authors under the collective pseudonym Daisy Meadows, and illustrated by Georgie Ripper and Alison Winfield in several books and uncredited illustrators in the latest books. The fairies represent a wide range of hair/skin colors and style choices, though there isn't much variation in body type. The girls agree, and Ruby turns them into fairies for the first time to bring them to Fairyland, which is chilly and grey without the Rainbow Fairies there.She can summarize the plots, as thin as I find them, and loves to imagine herself in the fairy world. According to Frisian scholar Jurjen van der Kooi, in the Catalogue of Frisian Folktales, the tale type is also attested in Friesland, but the heroines are named Blauwoogje ("Blue-Eyes") and Bruin-oogje ("Brown-Eyes"). At Mermaid Cottage, where the Walkers are staying, Kirsty invites Rachel to explore the nearby beach, which turns into exploring the whole island once the girls see that the rainbow is still there and decide to follow it. There are so many Rainbow Magic Fairy books, all written under the same made-up author's name, all with similar themes.

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That's why we've added a new "Diverse Representations" section to our reviews that will be rolling out on an ongoing basis. Rachel is admiring the island when she feels a few raindrops - surprising, as the sun is still shining. The girls quickly become friends, chatting about mermaids and other magical things as the rain stops, and introduce each other to their parents, at which point they discover their vacation cottages are right next door to each other. According to the Latvian Folktale Catalogue, a similar story is found in Latvia, indexed as tale type 426, Lācis — princis ("Bear Prince"): two girls shelter a bear and rescue a dwarf; the bear defeats the dwarf and regains human form. The crisis the characters have to solve is so predictable (for a grown-up) that I just wanted to be done, but my kids find it to be actually compelling.

It was also released in Japan; the film was only recorded in English as its Japanese release has no Japanese vocal track. Parents need to know that the Rainbow Magic series is made up of several smaller sets of seven adventures, for a total of more than 200 individual books.

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As Ruby has no special object like many other fairies do, she relies solely on her wand to create the colour red. It is also possible that she is the oldest out of the Rainbow Fairies, as she tends to care for the other fairies and is willing to protect them no matter what. During the summer, when the girls are walking through the forest, they find a dwarf whose beard is stuck in a tree. The dangerous situations and quickly resolved cliffhangers are both fast-paced enough to keep kids interested and mild enough to ensure that those who aren't ready for anything edgier won't get too stressed about what's going to happen to Kirsty and Rachel.The RAINBOW MAGIC SERIES follows best friends Kirsty Tate and Rachel Walker, tweens who first meet during family vacations to Rainspell Island, where they help Ruby the Red Fairy and get involved in the first of many adventures to come. Eine Mecklenburgische Märchenfrau: Bertha Peters erzählt - Märchen, Schwänke und Geschichten (in German). The Rainbow Magic and Magic Animal Friends books are written by a small collective of authors under the name Daisy Meadows. Each story follows best friends Kirsty Tate and Rachel Walker as they help their fairy friends resolve a problem involving bad guy Jack Frost and his goblin minions.