Molly’s Magic Wardrobe: Search for the Fairy Star
If you were to ask my girls what they loved to do more than anything in the world, they would tell you, without a moments hesitation, dressing up and reading. If they’re not dancing round the house in Princess dresses, rocking their Halloween costumes in mid July, or designing outfits out of tissue paper and sellotape, then you will find then curled up with a book, gazing at the illustrations, sounding out each word, and losing themselves in a world of imagination. And according to my Mum, I was exactly the same at the same age!
So when we were kindly sent the magical new story Molly’s Magic Wardrobe: Search for the Fairy Star, by Adam and Charlotte Guillain, the girls were over the moon!
With a gorgeous, bright and colourful cover, the girls couldn’t wait to read the story and, even better, when they opened the cover they were delighted to discover their very own magic wand and fairy wings! Megan’s eyes practically popped out of her head as she screeched, “A real life magic fairy wand!!!!”.
The book tells the story of Molly, a young girl who discovers an enchanted dressing-up wardrobe full of costumes in her Granny’s house. Molly puts on the fairy costume and golden fairy wings and suddenly finds herself whisked off to Fairyland!!
There she meets Fairy Flo who has lost the magic star from her wand and needs Molly to help her find it. On their search for the star they come across a unicorn, a big grey wolf, a witch and a giant. Megan is incredibly sensitive when it comes to any stereotypical “scary characters” in books, and yet our favourite thing about this story was that the characters were all friendly!
All of the characters are brought to life by the beautiful artwork from Garry Parsons, which didn’t go un-noticed by the girls. “The pictures are so pretty!” Megan told me, “I love the pink pages!!”.
At the end of the book Molly of course finds Fairy Flo’s star, returns home and closes the wardrobe until her next adventure. The girls were so excited looking at the picture of the other costumes in the wardrobe and imagining where Molly will travel to next! “I think she will be a mermaid!” Megan whispered, “Or maybe she will go to the moon!” Eva said.
I love a book that not only captures my children’s attention, but really gets their imaginations working. Long after we had finished reading the book the girls were still playing at their own version of Molly’s Magic Wardrobe, choosing outfits from their own wardrobes and travelling to make believe lands. I think that’s always the sign of a good book, and I know that Molly is going to be a character that my children enjoy reading about, and re-enacting, for a long time to come!
Molly’s Magic Wardrobe is available here from Amazon priced at just £6.99.
** We were sent this book for the purpose of this review. All words and opinions are our own unless otherwise stated **
I was smiling while reading this entire article. It is so much fun to see our children reading, isn’t it? My daughter is a reading machine and although she has graduated to books with little or no pictures, it is still a joy to see her imagination run wild as she’s retelling me what she’s read. Even as a tween, I think my daughter would enjoy this book and the beautiful illustrations.
It’s so lovely to see them read and I agree, I think even older children would really enjoy this book. I know I was well into fairies even as old as being ten! xx
So cute, it’s amazing to see books likes this that are fun to read for our kids. The experience and how the book brings the child to the magical world brings more creativity. I love to buy one of this.
PS: the link to amazon is broken
Oh thank you for letting me know! I will change that! xx
That is awesome that they like dress up and reading! And what a cool book. I haven’t seen a book like that. How fun!
It’s so fun Elaine, they really love it! xx
This is great, I am not into reading and all, but it nice that some kids are into reading which they find it fun. The experience is really great for them, if they read something magical.
Oh they just love to read, it’s great for them! xx
Aw that’s lovely. And it makes reading fun too. Very educational. My little niece would love something like this.
It’s a lovely book Chelsea! xx
Aww my eldest daughter would love this book so much! It’s a shame her birthday has just gone, perhaps I’ll order a copy ready for Christmas and be really organised 🙂
Hehe good idea! xx
This looks like such a lovely book, my little girl would love this too as she adores story time x
Ours too, I love reading with them. xx
What a gorgeous book! I love the wings and wand that come with it too! I remember the dressing up stage, it was so lovely! Sim x
Its lovely to see them getting into character! xx
This sounds like the sort of book my daughter would love! I love how the girls were busy acting out their own version afterwards. My daughter often does that too xx
Its lovely to see then use their imaginations isn’t it! xx
Unicorns, dressing up, fairy wands, pink pages? My 3 year old would be sold in a second!
Haha yes! It’s a little ones dream! xx
what a cute book! Any girl would love this story and the bonus wand and wings, can’t go wrong! thanks!
I agree, I would have loved it too! xx
I love your blog! Very detailed writing, very understanding! Thank you so much for the share! I will be subscribing to you! <3
Thank you so much! xx
This looks like such a beautiful book and story, and one my trio would love (despite 2 being little boys, as they love things like this too)
Harry my youngest loved it too! It’s a lovely story! xx
This is very cute and the book looks great. I love books that really get children’s imagination working. There is a book called The Nowhere Box that I love. It’s about a boy who’s brother is annoying him so he climbs into a box of a washing machine that has just been delivered, cuts and models, adding buttons, etc then he flies into the jungle, meets pirates, flies into space, rides a roller coaster…anywhere his imagination takes him.
Oh I will look that one up thank you! xx
I love playing on the theme of a book. Whether it’s food, dress up or a craft, it’s a great way to bring a book to life! 🙂
Us too! Such a lovely idea! xx
That’s so cute that they like to dress up while they read books, it must really make them come to life x
Its a fab idea isn’t it! xx
Ah that’s adorable! The book sounds lovely and my daughter would love this book!
Its lovely Stephanie! xx
There’s so much competition in the children’s book market. Authors need to do something special to make their work stand out from the crowd. It sounds like this one has really paid attention to their market and nailed it. Nice!
Yes I love that it offers something a little different! xx
My kids love dressing up and I know my daughter would love reading this book as well. I love all the photos you have shared of your daughter, she looks super cute
Thank you! xx
What a great way to make reading fun and entertaining! We need more books like this!!
We do! Its a fab book and the girls love it! xx
I love the joy of watching my girls’ imaginations grow through good books too. I may be in my 40’s but I still yearn for a fairy wand!
Me too! xx
I love that it comes with a wand and wings. My daughter would love this despite being only 21months this is going on the to buy list for her birthday x
Oh Im sure she will love it! xx
I adore that it comes with wings and a wand
You can imagine how excited the girls were about that! xx
Oh, this book is gorgeous. 😀
The wings and the wand are both amazing too. 😀
It’s lovely isn’t it! We’ve really enjoyed it! xx