TinkerBell: The Magical Story by Parragon BooksMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
TinkerBell
Story Adapted by Renee Tawa
2009 Disney Enterprises Inc
Jacket/ Marketing Synopsis: The story of Tinker Bell comes to life in this pixie-dusted set! Follow along with the story as you discover how Tinker Bell found her talent and how the fairies prepare to bring seasons to the mainland. Readers can relive the magic of the movie again and again with this 32-page storybook and CD package--a great value!
Concepts/Lessons: Don’t let bullies tell you who you are. Never let anyone tell you that you are not special in your own way.
Review:
The Art: The art is pretty close the movies. If because it does done by the Disney Storyboard Artists. So a team of people worked on this.
What I Loved
Loved this story. I love that there is more to Tinker Bell than being a pretty fairy - the wing-woman to Peter Pan. I love that Tinker Bell’s talent is work with tools and I think this could be used to encourage little girls to take an interest in STEAM talents, or at least to accept that you can be pretty and still work with tools.
I also loved the take away. TinkerBell is bulled by Vidia, a fast flying fairy who thinks she’s better than everyone else. TinkerBell is two days old when Vidia makes her feel bad about herself and her Talent. Tink goes off to try and learn a new nature talent so that she can befriend Vidia and go to the mainland.
This is an an awesome message for little girls. Some chicks just are not your friend, and listening to them will do nothing but get you into deeper and deeper trouble.
Think eventually learns that her special talent really is just as cool as everyone else’s. She realizes that in trying to be friends with the bully she was bulling her real friends. She corrects her additude and rewarded with a chance to do her own special mission on the mainland after all.
What I Liked
These books adapted from movies are usually very hard to read. They either change too much, or they don’t say enough. Sometimes the wording is hard to get out or POV is weird.
This one actually reads pretty smoothly. It really doesn’t need all the bell whistles that have been added. My daughter is genuinely charmed by the characters and the story - both in the movie and in the read along book.
Dislikes:
They seriously over use some of the special affects. Makes it hard to suggest this as a bedtime story. More like a keep the kid awake because they’ve missed nap time and it’s almost bedtime kind of story.
Also, how come Iridessa’s page? It was like the funniest part of the movie and the sun fairy doesn’t even get a page. Bah.
Lessons to Take away
If you find yourself with a job adapting a movie into a picture book this a good one to study. This PB kept the charm and plot of the movie, is easy for parents to read, and charming for little ears stay involved in the story to the end.
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