Rainbow Magic

Somewhere past the last cloud lies Fairyland, where King Oberon and Queen Titania keep the world's colour, weather, and wonder in careful order — until frosty, sulky Jack Frost sends his bungling goblins to steal it all away. Only two human girls can help. On a seaside holiday, Rachel Walker and Kirsty Tate become secret friends to the fairies, and in book after book they slip off to find one lost magical thing and set one small corner of the world sparkling again. This is Rainbow Magic: a first chapter-book world built for readers just learning to turn the pages themselves. Its scope is enormous and tidily arranged. Written by the shared pen name Daisy Meadows — a rotating team including Narinder Dhami, Rachel Elliot, Sue Mongredien and Kristin Earhart — the books gather into themed sets of (usually) seven, one fairy per book: the founding Rainbow Fairies, then Weather Fairies, Jewel Fairies, Pet Fairies, Party Fairies, Dance Fairies, Princess Fairies and dozens more, plus longer Special Editions and holiday specials. The pattern never changes, and that is the point: find the missing charm, outwit a goblin, restore the magic, home for tea. What it offers is reassurance in bright wrapping — gentle peril that always resolves, friendship that always holds, and the quiet triumph of a child reading a whole book alone. Every set stands on its own, so a newcomer can simply pick the theme that delights them. But the true beginning is The Rainbow Fairies, starting with Ruby the Red Fairy and running through the spectrum to Heather the Violet Fairy: seven short books that free the fairies of colour and open the door to all the rest.