Fairies Away!

Fairies Away!

Imagine my surprise when a friend told me that Daisy Meadows, the author of countless daisy stories, is not a real person.  I thought the woman loved writing about fairies so much that she changed her name for the sake of her fictional fairy mission. 

No one knows exactly why five-year-old girls become fascinated with predictable  stories--lacking as much in plot as in character development--in which two friends, Rachel and Kirsty,  battle the evil Jack Frost and his goblins to help the fairy kingdom retain its magical prowess.  No one with the exception of the mythical Daisy Meadows and a very real army of ghost writers who got the formula down for getting five-year-olds hooked on their books knows.

I don’t know about you, but I can’t tell the stories apart.  They all blend together replicating one another.  Since I can’t ruin a story that repeats itself over and over again, I can tell you that in every book Rachel and Kirsty succeed in protecting the fairy kingdom, defeating Jack Frost and his goblins.  I know that the fairies have different colors and magical powers assigned to them.  Which fairy goes with which color and magical power, you might ask.  If you as a parent can answer this question, give yourself a gold star! I would have to struggle to remember their individual names and powers.  I also know that it’s almost impossible to tell Rachel and Kirsty apart as the two seem to be cloned to me.

As for my daughter, she’s doing what all her friends are doing along with millions of girls across the country—looking forward to getting a different fairy book out of the school library each week.  She is as dedicated to getting and listening to the Daisy Meadows series as the rest of her peers.  I wonder if she will recall any of the cloned stories or characters years from now.  I know I will, but only because I’ve read the same story in each of the series’ books.