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The Fairy House #1
Fairy Friends
Katie has a secret -- her four best friends are fairies! They need to save the magic oak that connects the fairy and human worlds. Each book brings them closer to completing this important fairy task!
When Kaity accidentally leaves her new dollhouse outside overnight, she's in for a surprise. By the next day, four fairies have moved in! They've come for a they must save the magic oak tree that connects the fairy and human worlds. And they need Katie's help.
But when Katie's mom tells her she must bring the dollhouse inside, the fairies get crazy. Katie will need to clean up the mess and convince her mom to let the dollhouse stay outside where the fairies are happy. Only then will they will be able to get to work on completing their important fairy task!
When Kaity accidentally leaves her new dollhouse outside overnight, she's in for a surprise. By the next day, four fairies have moved in! They've come for a they must save the magic oak tree that connects the fairy and human worlds. And they need Katie's help.
But when Katie's mom tells her she must bring the dollhouse inside, the fairies get crazy. Katie will need to clean up the mess and convince her mom to let the dollhouse stay outside where the fairies are happy. Only then will they will be able to get to work on completing their important fairy task!
112 pages, Hardcover
First published April 2, 2007
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March 8, 2026
Fairy Friends (2007) is the first of Kelly McKain's early middle grade chapter books about Katie and her four best friends (all of whom are fairies) trying to save a large oak tree from being destroyed by a builder (a developer in the USA and in Canada) to make room for a large house (and with this particular oak tree being the magical connection between fairyland and the human world, thus an essential and necessary portal, since fairies require the oak tree for especially their environmental tasks and responsibilities).
And in Fairy Friends McKain shows textually simply but delightfully (with nothing in-depth but that in my opinion Fairy Friends is perfect for young independent reading girls between the ages of seven to nine or so, especially if they like fairy and dollhouse stories and that Katie as a main character is also wonderful book friend material for my inner child) how when Katie accidentally leaves her new dollhouse outside overnight (after happily painting the rather plain looking dollhouse to spruce it up, to make it her own and adding hand-made dolls as her Barbies are of course much too large) she is in for a huge surprise. For when she returns the next day, four fairies have moved into the dollhouse, are determined to stay and then make friends with Katie when they realise she can actually see and interact with fairies and thus also might be able to help them save the magic oak tree mentioned above, with Katie readily befriending the four fairies and also being more than willing to leave the dollhouse outside so that Daisy, Bluebell, Snowdrop and Rosehip will have a home, will have a place to stay but that when Katie's mother makes her daughter bring the dollhouse inside, the fairies (stranded inside the dollhouse and also inside the house, so not able to go outside) overreact, freak out and make a huge mess. Thus with Fairy Friends, it takes Katie and her fairy friends working together to clean this all up and Katie also both apologising and explaining to her mother why her new dollhouse must indeed remain outdoors to make it into a true fairy house and a place from where Daisy, Bluebell, Snowdrop and Rosehip can now try to with Katie's help save the threatened oak tree, with the mother being depicted by Kelly McKain as agreeing with Katie about leaving her new dollhouse outside (although she obviously does not actually believe in fairies and thinks that her daughter is simply playing games and using her imagination).
So just to point out that especially my inner child really appreciates the supportive and almost friend like rapport that for the most part exists between Katie and her single artist mother and is (for me) totally being celebrated in Fairy Friends. But yes and admittedly, I am also kind of jealous since my own mother was certainly never like this, how when I tried to paint and pretty up my own dollhouse as a child, my mother was most definitely not all that encouraging and actually got quite angry since I was supposedly making the dollhouse ugly and as such somehow ruining things (and yes indeed, that after being annoyed at and with Katie regarding the mess, how even though McKain points out that Katie's mother does not in fact believe her daughter can see fairies and that fairies exist, that she still allows the dollhouse to be outside and encourages her daughter, this makes me smile, this makes me very very happy and with personal enviousness notwithstanding).
Four stars for Fairy Friends (and in particular from my seven to nine year old me), and yes, if the rest of The Fairy House series is available on Open Library, I am definitely sufficiently interested in continuing (although not immediately, since I have far too many reading projects on the go).
And in Fairy Friends McKain shows textually simply but delightfully (with nothing in-depth but that in my opinion Fairy Friends is perfect for young independent reading girls between the ages of seven to nine or so, especially if they like fairy and dollhouse stories and that Katie as a main character is also wonderful book friend material for my inner child) how when Katie accidentally leaves her new dollhouse outside overnight (after happily painting the rather plain looking dollhouse to spruce it up, to make it her own and adding hand-made dolls as her Barbies are of course much too large) she is in for a huge surprise. For when she returns the next day, four fairies have moved into the dollhouse, are determined to stay and then make friends with Katie when they realise she can actually see and interact with fairies and thus also might be able to help them save the magic oak tree mentioned above, with Katie readily befriending the four fairies and also being more than willing to leave the dollhouse outside so that Daisy, Bluebell, Snowdrop and Rosehip will have a home, will have a place to stay but that when Katie's mother makes her daughter bring the dollhouse inside, the fairies (stranded inside the dollhouse and also inside the house, so not able to go outside) overreact, freak out and make a huge mess. Thus with Fairy Friends, it takes Katie and her fairy friends working together to clean this all up and Katie also both apologising and explaining to her mother why her new dollhouse must indeed remain outdoors to make it into a true fairy house and a place from where Daisy, Bluebell, Snowdrop and Rosehip can now try to with Katie's help save the threatened oak tree, with the mother being depicted by Kelly McKain as agreeing with Katie about leaving her new dollhouse outside (although she obviously does not actually believe in fairies and thinks that her daughter is simply playing games and using her imagination).
So just to point out that especially my inner child really appreciates the supportive and almost friend like rapport that for the most part exists between Katie and her single artist mother and is (for me) totally being celebrated in Fairy Friends. But yes and admittedly, I am also kind of jealous since my own mother was certainly never like this, how when I tried to paint and pretty up my own dollhouse as a child, my mother was most definitely not all that encouraging and actually got quite angry since I was supposedly making the dollhouse ugly and as such somehow ruining things (and yes indeed, that after being annoyed at and with Katie regarding the mess, how even though McKain points out that Katie's mother does not in fact believe her daughter can see fairies and that fairies exist, that she still allows the dollhouse to be outside and encourages her daughter, this makes me smile, this makes me very very happy and with personal enviousness notwithstanding).
Four stars for Fairy Friends (and in particular from my seven to nine year old me), and yes, if the rest of The Fairy House series is available on Open Library, I am definitely sufficiently interested in continuing (although not immediately, since I have far too many reading projects on the go).
December 29, 2024
One of my favourites as a kid. We used to fight over who’d check it out at the library. Nice to reread it, it’s such a fun world for kids and I’m happy to finally have it on my bookshelf!
June 24, 2017
I read this aloud to my girls (along with my husband for some of it) and they REALLY liked this book. I'm absolutely certain that the "real" flower pedal skirt and the shiny cover had everything to do with it. If your kids like fairies than they will enjoy this light read.
Katie is a lonely girl who lives with her mother in a new housing development. She ends up finding and making some fairy friends and together, they will start the hunt for the birthstones so the fairy friends can return to their home. (this book mainly sets the stages for future books) I'd give it a 3-star rating, but my girls would give it a 5 so i am compromising.
Katie is a lonely girl who lives with her mother in a new housing development. She ends up finding and making some fairy friends and together, they will start the hunt for the birthstones so the fairy friends can return to their home. (this book mainly sets the stages for future books) I'd give it a 3-star rating, but my girls would give it a 5 so i am compromising.
January 21, 2016
This is another tie-in to the Tinker Bell movie. It's a coloring book that starts with a section of very nice stickers. It's some 48 pages long. A few of the pages are just regular drawing to color in, but most of them have some kind of activity to complete.
Some of the earlier pages also show a different hairstyle for the relatively-newly born Tinker Bell. Lots of things for a young person to have fun with.
Some of the earlier pages also show a different hairstyle for the relatively-newly born Tinker Bell. Lots of things for a young person to have fun with.
March 22, 2008
Fairies come alive and live in Katie's new dollhouse. Snowdrop, Bluebell, Rosehip and Daisy have been banished from fairyland for fighting amongst themselves. Katie allows them to live in her new dollhouse as they complete the task given them by the Queen fairy. They must save the giant oak tree that is the portal from fairyland to the human world before a housing developer destoys the tree!
August 16, 2015
I'm surprised Luke chose this book at the library and that they sat through it all. It was a decent simple plot that based on some relatable norms of childhood like picking up your toys and obeying your mom and making friends. They enjoyed it!
April 3, 2011
Just another book that wasn't that exciting but it was still a really good book.
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