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In Pixie Hollow, the secret
heart of Never Land, lives Prilla, the only mainland-visiting
clapping-talent fairy. She is helping Nettle, a
caterpillar-shearing-talent fairy, cut the hair off the caterpillars
when she realizes that she doesn't want to do it anymore. Her real job
is to visit the mainland and have children catch glimpses her so they
don't forget that fairies really do exist. But, she has a hard time
saying "No" to anyone that asks her to do a favor. Usually the favor
entails her working with them everyday doing whatever job their talent
has them do. One day, she tells her friend, Nettle, that she loves
butterflies. It is a lie as she has never worked with butterflies, but
she didn't want to help Nettle with the caterpillar-shearing anymore.
Realizing that helping everyone all the time, she has no time to do what
she really loves, which is to visit the mainland so children can see
her. Later, during dinner, it is reported that all the butterfly herding
fairies are sick with the fairy pox. When the queen needs someone to
watch over the butterflies, Prilla has to do it because of the lie she
told Nettle. As Prilla starts trying to the herd the butterflies, she
finds out that although they are quite beautiful, they are pranksters.
Finally, when she thinks that she scares a butterfly so badly that it
dies, she turns to Vidia for some help. Finally, she has to tell the
queen that she lied about loving butterflies and that feels a shamed for
doing so.
Prilla and the Butterfly
Lie
is another book in the Disney Fairies series. It is written by Kitty
Richards and illustrated by Denise Shimabukuro & The Disney Storybook Artists. This series is
intended for young readers aged 7 to 9.
I'll tell you what, lying
never solves any problem. In fact, you usually get into more trouble
that you would have if you had told the truth. That is what the Disney
Fairies book Prilla and the
Butterfly Lie
is all about. Prilla has a had time saying "No" to any of her friends.
Because she cannot say "No," she ends up telling a lie. Then she has to
do something she doesn't want to do because her friends believed the
lie. If she had only told Nettle the truth in the first place, she would
not have had to try herding the troublesome butterflies. Then she could
have been doing what she really wanted to do. But because she wanted to
avoid conflict, she always did what her friends wanted her to do.
Prilla and the Butterfly Lie
teaches children to stand up for what they believe in and to not tell
lies. They will see how much trouble a fairy gets into because she lied
and didn't stand up for what she wanted. I really enjoyed this story by
Kitty Richards and I found the artwork by Denise Shimabukuro & The
Disney Storybook Artists to be spectacular. Overall,
Prilla and the Butterfly Lie is
another excellent addition to the Disney Fairies series of early chapter
books and should not be missed. If your daughter love Disney Fairies as
much as mine do, you need to pick this book up.
I rated this book a 9 out of
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Prilla sank into her chair until her head
was barely level with the table. She has completely forgotten about her
butterfly lie.