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Eliza and the Flower Fairies

by Megan McDonald
Lenny Wen
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From the beloved author of the Judy Moody and Stink series comes the first in a sparkling series of chapter books about a girl whose love for magic and fairy folk takes her on enchanting adventures
Imagine a door.
A teeny-tiny fairy door.
Now imagine it is magic.
Open the door.
To some, the low door in Eliza's bedroom might look like an ordinary entrance to a crawl space under the stairs. But to a believer like Eliza of the Elves, it's the door to the Land of UnderStair, a secret hideout all her own. In that crawl space, festooned with twinkling lights, Eliza keeps her favorite book, her collections of precious items, her stuffed animals, and her new diary. And in that crawl space is another door, a teeny-tiny one that can transport Eliza to a world of tangerine sun and lemon-pudding sky, a place where flower fairies perch on every bloom and a new flower springs up whenever you pick one. But in a far corner of that world, Eliza tries to pick a strangely beautiful flower—"Nooooo!" cries her friend Poppy—and things soon go terribly awry. Can a brave, wilting Poppy rescue Eliza from beyond the hedgerow before the Demon Wind steals all the flower fairies' scents, leaving the snapdragons with no snap? In this launch of a new series, Megan McDonald brings her well-honed flair for wordplay to delicious villains like the witches Wolfsbane and Belladonna as she follows a child with a big imagination to a different fairy realm in each book. Lenny Wen's delightful, richly colored artwork brings Eliza's world to life with fanciful details sure to have readers creating their own cozy retreats—and visiting magical lands beyond the door.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Fairy Door Diaries

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    February 4, 2025

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781536242386
    Kindle restrictions

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 4, 2024
      Eager to visit a place of magic, young Eliza sprints off School Bus Number Six and all the way home to Cottage Number Two. In her bedroom, the pale-skinned child enters a curved door from which “cherry-pink light streamed” that leads to the Land of UnderStair, a secret chamber in which Eliza is free to practice magic. Upon manifesting and entering a small fairy door made from moss, twigs, and a pinch of fairy dust, Eliza meets flower fairy Poppy, who gives her an enchanted bracelet that allows her to see other fairy folk and tells her how they create flower scents. Everything is going wonderfully until Eliza accidently picks a dangerous flower and falls into Stranglewood Hollows, where flora go to die. There, evil flower fairies Wolfsbane and Belladonna determine to curse Eliza and steal the scent of flowers. Now Eliza must be brave to save her new friends. Judy Moody creator McDonald utilizes radiantly colorful illustrations limned with intricate, foreshadowing detail to bring the fairies’ world to life in this joyful tale of learning to believe in oneself and rejoicing in magic both grandiose and mundane. Ages 5–9.

    • Booklist

      Starred review from November 1, 2024
      Grades 1-4 *Starred Review* Adorable Eliza, black hair bobbed and pinned with whimsical barrettes, runs to her secret hideaway beneath the stairs as soon as she gets home from school. In this cozy nook, she is free from chores and her little sister's demands, and when conditions are right, she can even use the small fairy door in the wall. The sudden appearance of a double rainbow is just such a magical sign, and so Eliza opens the door and enters the Land of the Flower Fairies, her dragonfly pin twitching to life as her winged companion, Haiku. There, they wander amid beautiful blossoms and chat with the fairies who give each flower its scent, but when Eliza crosses the hedgerow to inspect a strange bloom, she unwittingly enters the territory of the "Evil Ones," Wolfsbane and Belladonna. The malevolent duo unleashes a Demon Wind to steal the flowers' scents, leaving it up to Eliza to save the flowers and their fairies. McDonald, author of the Judy Moody series, has created another wonderful series for early chapter-book readers in the Fairy Door Diaries. The story immediately plunges readers into Eliza's world of imagination, which operates by believable kid logic. Wen's illustrations, rendered in gouache and colored pencil, beautifully augment the tale's enchanting nature. This gentle adventure will be embraced by little ones who know the world is full of magic.

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    • Kirkus

      December 1, 2024
      A young girl travels to the Land of the Flower Fairies and saves the day. Eliza has a hideout under the stairs where she reads about fairies with her stuffed toy; on one wall, she creates a "teeny-tiny fairy door" out of moss and sticks. One day, the door flies open, and magic allows her to fit through into the Land of the Flower Fairies, where every flower has a fairy, and new flowers appear whenever old ones are picked. Her dragonfly pin becomes a familiar named Haiku, and she befriends a pink-winged fairy named Poppy. She introduces herself as Eliza of the Elves. Trouble begins as she accidentally crosses a hedgerow into Strangleweed Swallow. There, two witches named Wolfsbane and Belladonna cast a spell to summon the Demon Wind, which steals the scents from the flowers, causing them--and their fairies--to wilt and die. Eliza is immune to their curse, so it's up to her to save the flowers and her new friends. This slim volume packs in plenty of magic and nonstop action and adventure but not a lot of character development. When Eliza returns home, her blank diary has magically filled with an account of her adventures, paving the way for a series of future escapades. Colorful gouache and colored pencil illustrations throughout will help practicing readers by illuminating the highly visual action. Eliza presents Asian; characters are diverse. Fairy fans will find an enchanting new world.(Early chapter book. 5-8)

      COPYRIGHT(2024) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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