Alison The Art Fairy

Includes an excerpt from: Lydia the reading fairy.

Alison's gold art badge is nowhere to be found. Rachel and Kirsty have to find it before art class gets really messy!

The Rainbow Magic Fairies are going to school! It's time for Jack Frost to learn his lesson!Best friends Kirsty Tate and Rachel Walker usually only get to spend vacations and holidays with each other. But for a special week, they'll both be going to the same school! It's a good thing the two friends are together. Jack Frost is causing trouble at the Fairyland School--and the School Day Fairies need help!Alison's gold art badge is nowhere to be found. Rachel and Kirsty have to find it before art class gets really messy!

"Best friends Kirsty Tate and Rachel Walker usually only get to spend vacations and holidays with each other. But for a special week, they'll both be going to the same school! ... Jack Frost is causing trouble at the Fairyland School--and the School Day Fairies need help! Alison's gold art badge is nowhere to be found"--

NATIONAL BESTSELLER (The Globe and Mail) A moving memoir about growing up with a gay father in the 1980s, and a tribute to the power of truth, humour, acceptance and familial love. A true "It GOT Better" story. Alison Wearing led a largely carefree childhood until she learned, at the age of 12, that her family was a little more complex than she had realized. Sure her father had always been unusual compared to the other dads in the neighbourhood: he loved to bake croissants, wear silk pyjamas around the house, and skip down the street singing songs from Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. But when he came out of the closet in the 1970s, when homosexuality was still a cardinal taboo, it was a shock to everyone in the quiet community of Peterborough, Ontario—especially to his wife and three children. Alison’s father was a professor of political science and amateur choral conductor, her mother was an accomplished pianist and marathon runner, and together they had fed the family a steady diet of arts, adventures, mishaps, normal frustrations and inexhaustible laughter. Yet despite these agreeable circumstances, Joe’s internal life was haunted by conflicting desires. As he began to explore and understand the truth about himself, he became determined to find a way to live both as a gay man and also a devoted father, something almost unheard of at the time. Through extraordinary excerpts from his own letters and journals from the years of his coming out, we read of Joe’s private struggle to make sense and beauty of his life, to take inspiration from an evolving society and become part of the vanguard of the gay revolution in Canada. Confessions of a Fairy’s Daughter is also the story of “coming out” as the daughter of a gay father. Already wrestling with an adolescent’s search for identity when her father came out of the closet, Alison promptly “went in,” concealing his sexual orientation from her friends and spinning extravagant stories about all of the “great straight things” they did together. Over time, Alison came to see that life with her father was surprisingly interesting and entertaining, even oddly inspiring, and in fact, there was nothing to hide. Balancing intimacy, history and downright hilarity, Confessions of a Fairy’s Daughter is a captivating tale of family life: deliciously imperfect, riotously challenging, and full of life’s great lessons in love. Alison brings her story to life with a skillfully light touch in this warm, heartfelt and revelatory memoir.

Kathryn's magic gym badge is the only one still missing, stolen by Jack Frost. Rachel and Kirsty have to find it so that school days are fun for everyone again! This exciting chapter book is part Daisy Meadows's NYT bestselling Rainbow Magic series.

Enter a captivating world of sparkles and spells in this vibrant illustrated book. Discover house fairies, garden fairies, water fairies. Learn about famous fairies from history and fairy foes. Once you've read this book, you'll qualify as a keeper of fairy secrets and a trusted friend of the fairy folk! Long ago, Titania, queen of the fairies, ruled that the secrets of her kingdom should never be passed to the outside world. However, some children have a spinkling of stardust in their souls, and the fairy queen has agreed that those special little people might be granted a glimpse of her enchanted realm. Open the pages of this book, and step into a glittering world of fairy magic and mischief. From woodland sprites to garden pixies, and from water nymphs to house elves, here are the fairies that live all around us, if only we would look! Explore the mysterious world of Fairyland, take a peek inside the fairy queen's magnificent castle and learn about famous fairies from Tinker Bell and the Blue Fairy to the wicked fairy in Sleeping Beauty. Find out how shimmering spider silk gowns are all the rage in the world of fairy fashion, and learn about magical tools, from fairy wants to fairy dust.

Felicity follows a snail that leads her through a greenhouse, an orchard, and a garden until she finds her surprise.