Fairy Door Diaries: Eliza and the Flower Fairies
By (Author) Megan McDonald
Illustrated by Lenny Wen
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Candlewick Press,U.S.
Candlewick Press,U.S.
1st February 2025
United States
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories
Picture storybooks: imagination and play
Hardback
96
Width 170mm, Height 216mm, Spine 14mm
414g
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 Elizas bedroom might look like an ordinary entrance to a crawl space under the stairs. But to a believer like Eliza of the Elves, its 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 flowerNooooo! cries her friend Poppyand 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 Wens delightful, richly colored artwork brings Elizas world to life with fanciful details sure to have readers creating their own cozy retreatsand visiting magical lands beyond the door.
Megan McDonald is the author of the popular Judy Moody and Stink series for older readers, the Judy Moody and Friends series for beginning readers, and the first chapter book Bunny and Clyde. She has also written many other chapter books and picture books for children. Megan McDonald lives in California.
Lenny Wen is the illustrator of Smiling Eyes by Linda Sue Park, among other books, and the author-illustrator of Spicy Spicy Hot! and Wolfgang in the Meadow. Born in Indonesia, Lenny Wen now lives in Austria.