Finally, when the other Rainbow Fairies see that Sky is weak and needs help, instead of putting their heads together to figure out a way to help Sky themselves, Ruby the Red Fairy says: In this book, there were just too many instances of the girls and the fairies not stepping up to challenges. Rescuing Sky also involved getting some help from some friendly crabs, but I was bothered because the crabs really didn't do anything that the girls couldn't have done themselves. Linda Chapman has written over 50 children's fiction books, including the following series: My Secret Unicorn, Stardust, Not Quite a Mermaid, and Unicorn School. She lives in Leicestershire with her husband and daughters. The Fairy with Turquoise Hair ( Italian: La Fata dai Capelli Turchini; often simply referred to as The Blue Fairy, La Fata Turchina) is a fictional character in the 1883 Italian book The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, [1] repeatedly appearing at critical moments in Pinocchio's wanderings to admonish the little wooden puppet to avoid bad or risky behavior.

In the novel [ edit ] Pinocchio refuses to take the medicine prompting the Fairy to summon a group of funeral directors rabbits to take him. Rachel and Kirsty are exploring the tide pools on Rainspell Island’s beach when Kirsty notices something blue moving under a clump of seaweed. It turns out to be a shiny blue crab, which mutters about a fairy in trouble and leads the girls to two different tide pools before finding one that fizzles with blue sparkles, then scuttles away while the girls look for the fairy. The Fairy with Turquoise Hair makes her first appearance in chapter XV, where she is portrayed as a young girl living in a house in the middle of a forest. Pinocchio, who is being chased by The Fox and the Cat ( Il Gatto e la Volpe), pleads with the Fairy to allow him entrance. The Fairy cryptically responds that all inhabitants of the house, including herself, are dead, and that she is waiting for her coffin to arrive. The pair catches and hangs Pinocchio from a tree. In the following chapter, it is established that the girl is a fairy who has lived in the forest for more than a thousand years. She takes pity on Pinocchio, and sends a falcon to take him down from the tree and for her poodle servant Medoro to prep her stagecoach. Blue is the color that is thought to promote creativity. Sky expresses her artsy side by creating all kinds of elaborate cloud shapes - you've probably seen her work. Blurb [ ]

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The Blue Fairy also makes an appearance (played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus) in the TV musical Geppetto. Voiced by Rosalyn Landor, the fairy appears in the television series House of Mouse as a guest at the titular night club. In the film Teacher's Pet, voiced again by Landor, she helps Spot Helperman realize his dreams to pose as a boy. In 1976's West German-Austrian-Japanese animated series Pinocchio, the role of Fairy is the same like in the book although she does not physically age and stays as a young woman. She acts as a motherly figure and teacher to Pinocchio and gets to rescue him from harm several times. After Pinocchio finds her tombstone instead of her house she appears later in different forms including a giant pigeon. Eventually, as a reward to Pinocchio's good deeds, the fairy decides to transform him into a real boy. Other appearances [ edit ] The Fairy with Turquoise Hair, as portrayed in Giuliano Cenci's 1972 film The Adventures of Pinocchio

Lccn 2006281921 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL23100804M Openlibrary_edition In the 1992 direct-to-video adaptation by GoodTimes Entertainment, the Blue Fairy (voiced by Jeannie Elias) is portrayed more like her Disney counterpart with blonde hair instead of turquoise. She is soft-spoken and sweet. The Blue Fairy is also a motherly figure to Pinocchio and guides him. She also has a broken heart when she realizes that Pinocchio is swallowed by a whale, but Pinocchio becomes good and repays her kindness by doing the good things. urn:oclc:185150727 Republisher_date 20120613083647 Republisher_operator [email protected] Scandate 20120612040622 Scanner scribe21.shenzhen.archive.org Scanningcenter shenzhen Worldcat (source edition) Sue Bentley was born in Northampton, England. She worked in a library after completing her education and began writing for children once her own began school. Bentley is the author of the Magic Kitten, Magic Puppy, and S Club series and lives in Northamptonshire.

In Buratino, the Russian adaptation of Pinocchio, there is a female character with blue hair named Malvina. Rainbow Magic books by Daisy Meadows were the most-borrowed children's books at libraries in the United Kingdom, and the second-most borrowed books overall at those libraries, in 2010 and 2011, respectively. [4] [5]

In the Vertigo comic series Fables, she appears as a blue-haired fairy who makes Pinocchio into a (never-aging) boy. In the live-action Italian film Pinocchio (2019), co-written, directed and co-produced by Matteo Garrone, the Fairy is portrayed by Alida Baldari Calabria [ it] as a child and Marine Vacth (dubbed by Domitilla D'Amico) as an adult. In the English version, Baldari Calabria dubbed herself, while Vacth was dubbed again by D'Amico.

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In the 2012 Italian animated film Pinocchio, the Fairy seems as young as Pinocchio and shows a sense of humour. As on many versions, she forgives him and encourages him to do good. She restores him from his donkey form to puppet form, and also turns him to a real boy for risking his life for Gepetto. In the 2022 stop-motion Netflix film Pinocchio produced, written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, The Fairy with Turquoise Hair is rewritten as the character of the Wood Sprite (voiced by Tilda Swinton) whose appearance is a blue hairless humanoid with eight wings that have eyes on them and a feathered snake-like tail. The Wood Sprite also has a sister named Death (also voiced by Tilda Swinton).

In Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio, the Blue Fairy is portrayed by Italian actress Nicoletta Braschi with her English-dubbed voice provided by Glenn Close. Gina Lollobrigida as The Fairy with Turquoise Hair in the TV series The Adventures of Pinocchio (1972) Friends Rachel and Kirsty must save Sky the Blue Fairy in this chapter book from the best-selling Rainbow Magic series! In Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, the Fairy is actually called the "Blues Fairy" (voiced by Della Reese) and is like her Disney counterpart who tells Pinocchio, aka Pinoak, what is right and what is wrong. Five months later, Pinocchio is transformed into a donkey and be sold to a circus ringleader to jump, dance and bow. In the middle of the show he sees the fairy in the audience, she wore a long gold chain, from which hung a large medallion with an image of a puppet. Pinocchio became lame and was sold to a musician to make a drum and later thrown into the sea by his handler.In Steven Spielberg's 2001 movie A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001), the Blue Fairy (voiced by Meryl Streep) appears as a plot MacGuffin. The main character David (played by Haley Joel Osment, who also voices Sora in the Kingdom Hearts example above), a robotic child believes that the Blue Fairy has the power to turn him into a real boy. It also appears in the form of the Coney Island statue of the Blue Fairy which David mistakes for a real blue fairy. HMMM... After Isabelle gets over this fairy phase, I think I should look for some books with more empowered girls in it. The Blue Fairy was a 1950s' children's program on WGN-TV in Chicago, hosted by Brigid Bazlen as the fairy. [4] Sky offers the pile of seagull feathers as cushioning for the shell bed inside the pot, and the fairies begin planning a welcome-home feast, which the girls decline upon remembering there will be a picnic waiting on the beach for them. Sky follows the girls a short way out of the clearing, and they promise her they’ll find her two remaining sisters before their vacation is over. Trivia [ ]