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November 5, 2016/in Fiction 8-10 Junior/Middle /by Angie Hill
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BfK 221 November 2016
Reviewer: Sue Roe
ISBN: 978-1510200326
Price: £6.99
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Genre: Fiction
Age Range: 8-10 Junior/Middle
Length: 208pp
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Rowan Oakwing

Author: E J Clarke

This is an imaginative modern fairy tale that successfully combines traditional fairy story elements with a contemporary realism and a familiar setting, that of London’s parks.  Seven years after her mother’s disappearance Rowan cries herself to sleep under a weeping beech tree in Hyde Park and awakes to find herself transformed into a tiny Tree Fairy, Rowan Oakwing.  Aided by fellow Tree Fairy, Aiken, and a talking robin, Harold, Rowan learns how to manage her new abilities, follows clues to find her mother, finds allies amongst the Fairies of the Birds and Deer and makes a powerful enemy in Vulpes, Lord of the Fairies of the Fox.

Rowan is a brave, sympathetic heroine, definitely a feisty fairy character.  There is plenty of action and excitement, involving flying, pursuits, battles and shape-shifting and a satisfyingly detailed fairy tale realm linked to locations that many readers will recognise.  Rowan’s feelings of loss and sadness run through the story and add a fitting touch of darkness and danger to the humour and adventure.  In this first novel, E J Clarke sends his character off on her quest and sets the scene for a series that should appeal to readers who like their fairy tales to have a modern twist.

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