This traumatic event drives Flory into hiding, and she decides to become a day fairy. The fairies have a truce with the bats, but a bat tries to eat Flory, breaking off her wings. On the night of Flory's peril, she was less than three months old. On the seventh day of life, their wings unfold, and they fly away from home. They drink dew and suck the nectar from flowers. After three days, they will not drink milk and have no more use for their mothers. Luckily, they can walk and talk as soon as they are born. A fairy godmother is an excellent thing, but a fairy mother is a disaster.īecause fairies do not look after their children, young fairies have to take care of themselves. Young fairies have no one to take care of them, because fairies make bad parents. Their wings and even their magic are presented as just another adaptive survival strategy, and something the fairies grow into. Here Newbery Award-winning author Laura Amy Schlitz creates fairies who are tiny and sentient, yet also part of the fauna of the wild.
Only Flory is less civilized than even those fairies.
She's more like the fairies in Laini Taylor's books, Blackbringer and Silksinger. And felt compelled to talk about it.įirst of all, night fairy Flory is not the sweetly pink-dressed winged sprite you tend to read about in old-fashioned books for dear little girls. The Night Fairy is one of those books that have been reviewed by other bloggers already, including the well-known Betsy Bird, so I wasn't planning to review it myself.
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