Book review: "Bumblebees' Bottoms!" Nixie is back.
I read "Nixie the Bad, Bad Fairy", the first in this series with my 9-year-old daughter. She likes it because it is a little bit like the Rainbow Magic Fairy books but is different because it features a mischievous fairy as the main character, Nixie. This is the second book in the series.
Nixie is the Fairy who'd rather have snowball battles and sleigh rides than go about her chores ahead of the Midwinter Midnight Feast. And her playing normally ends up with her rival Adorabella, the Goody-goody Fairy getting "smothered in freezing cold snow", rather by accident of course. This story seems a little episodic with a number of separate stories weaved together with the Midwinter Midnight Feast being the main focus of the book (and a little clock at the beginning of each chapter indicating the time in the day that the chapter is taking place in).
The book is aimed at 5+ year-olds and all the trouble Nixie causes is innocent enough. The chapters are short and there are a few black and white illustrations along the way. Some of the text is bolded too to and put into different fonts to make it even more exciting. The words used are not as dumbed down as the Rainbow Magic books which is as it should be. And interestingly the extract at the back for the next Nixie book is for "Splashy Summer Swim" so it seems Nixie is on a bit of a seasonal journey in these two books.
This is a decent enough book for early readers.
Publication date: 5 Nov 2015
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