Today, I have a new book to tell you about:
Bad Fairy by Chrys Feye's mom, Elaine Kaye. Read on to learn some new fairy words!
Title: Bad
Fairy
Series: A Bad
Fairy Adventure (Book One)
Author: Elaine
Kaye
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Genre: Fantasy
Middle Grade
Length: 66 pages
Age Range: 8-12
BLURB: Thistle Greenbud is not a bad fairy. She
simply doesn't like rules, and it's just her luck that her homework is to
create a new rule for the fairy handbook. But first, she has more important
things to do. Like figure out how to get back at Dusty and Moss for playing
tricks on her.
Before she can carry out
her plan, though, disaster strikes and she finds herself working alongside the
very fairies she wanted revenge on. Can they work together and trust each
other, or will things go from bad to worse?
When you write for
children, you get to make things up and let your imagination run wild. For
fairies, I didn’t want to use the same sort of terminology and popular phrases
that kids use these days, because fairies wouldn’t know them! So, I decided to
create fairy alternatives. I had fun coming up with phrases like okum sokum and
boogles, two of the most commonly used words by Thistle and her friends.
To get hip with fairy
language, check out these words and their definitions.
FAIRY SLANG:
Batty Eye - a facial expression of disgust or
distrust.
Boogles - darn it, dang it.
Flea Fit - an outburst of anger.
Flutters - what the girl members of the Flutter
Club call themselves.
Fuddlebug - similar to “boogles,” it means “shoot”
or “crude.”
Moon’s Day - the Greek name for Monday.
Okum Sokum - pronounced oh-com so-com, it is the
Flutter’s rallying cheer and means “YESSSSSSS!!!!”
Saturn’s Day - the Greek name for Saturday.
Speckles - amber pieces of fossilized tree sap used
as money.
Spoogling - when a bad fairy throws rocks at another
fairy while they’re flying.
Sun’s Day - the Greek name for Sunday.
Twisty - a tornado
EXCERPT:
“Now on to the subject
of my tardiness. Dusty and Moss have struck again.”
The Flutters jump up.
“Now what?” Those words echo in the clubhouse.
All of us have one thing
in common—our dislike for Dusty and Moss. We are almost convinced they are
related to trolls. As I tell them what happened, they sit on the edge of their
chairs.
“They spoogled me!”
“Isn’t that dangerous?”
Lilly asks.
“You bet. A pebble
could’ve torn my wings. Then Moss grabbed my wing and flung me into a fern
bush. See the tear in my shirt?” They get up to look. “Right now, I could be
lying in the fern bush or on a hard leaf at Fairyview Hospital.”
Lilly stands up, facing
the other Flutters. “We have to get even!” She raises a clenched fist.
“I agree,” I say.
“Well, it can’t be
today,” Clover interrupts. “I need to get home before my mom throws a flea
fit.”
“I told my mom I
wouldn’t be gone long, too,” Rose says. “She has a punishment all planned out
if I’m late. I’ll have to pull thorny weeds from the flower beds.”
“Ouch,” we say in
sympathy.
“As President, I end our
meeting. I can’t get a Flutter in trouble. We will meet tomorrow morning. Now
let’s go home.”
We start to zoom off in
different directions.
“And watch for Dusty and
Moss!” I warn.
“Okum sokum!” they
holler back.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Elaine Kaye is the
author of A Gregory Green Adventure series. She first created
Gregory Green after her son, who loved her homemade pea soup, thus inspiring
the story Pea Soup Disaster. Bad Fairy is her
middle grade debut and the first of A Bad Fairy Adventure series.
Kaye has worked as a
library assistant and teacher’s assistant in elementary schools in the Sunshine
State. She currently lives in Florida, but she has called Michigan; Honolulu,
Hawaii; and Okinawa, Japan home. She is a grandmother of three boys.
