Project Fairy: Discover a brand new magical adventure from Jacqueline Wilson

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As well as winning many awards for her books, including the Children’s Book of the Year, Jacqueline is a former Children’s Laureate, and in 2008 she was appointed a Dame. I didn't finish it because of this, 'cause I just simply couldn't get into it, which is a pity, 'cause I would've liked to. I must say, as much as I like Rachel Dean's new illustrations and know it must be very hard stepping into the beloved Nick Sharratt's shoes, I was disappointed by the inconsistencies between text and artwork. So when Mab's teacher gives her a book all about Victorian fairies, she's excited to take it home and share it with mum and little Robin.

I wish the situation involving Billie had a better resolution it seemed she was going to leave Cathy It was a lovely time over all. The fantasy element was equally lovely, with that typical Victorian twist present in all my favourite JW books. When we first see Robin's group of five-year-old friends, a girl and a boy want him for a boyfriend.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I grew up on Jacqueline Wilsons stories and still enjoy them as an adult reader so I was excited to get started on this one. This book is absolutely beautiful, the one we have is a hardback and it has a very Jacqueline Wilson cover with the illustrations. She reads it with her mum and her little brother Robin, and she's surprised to see the drawings inside are nothing like the sweet fairies she imagined.

In spite of the typical girl-on-girl hate with the school bullies, and with other girls, and Mab moving on to being friends with a boy, Micky, because, and I quote, "[. Project Fairy is the magical new story for 2022 from award-winning children's author; Jacqueline Wilson. As well as winning many awards for her books, including the Children's Book of the Year, Jacqueline is a former Children's Laureate, and in 2008 she was appointed a Dame. In the end, as a reward for caring for her, Bindweed grants a wish for Mab and she meets her father once again. JW's books have become so much more sensitive over the years, thinking from a different perspective to the books which perhaps most readers my age might remember.

and definitely the kind of book I would have loved to read as a child, filled with fairy magic and history and all the heartache and family angst you'd expect from JW. The characters didn't feel overly filled-out or had full arcs, but in comparason the general world and the fairies felt the complete opposite, and that was great! Additional note: Mab is shown to be good at playing football once - brought on by her new best boy-friend, Micky, because feminism - but it never comes up again. She went through family issues, foster care with her unstable typical JW mother and cheeky little brother. I swore I wouldn't; that I was officially done after reading the crime against humanity, the abominable 'Opal Plumstead'.