Disney Fairies

**Disney Fairies** is a franchise created in 2005 by Andy Mooney. It is built around the character Tinker Bell from the 1953 film Peter Pan.

## Films

### Short Films

 Pixie Hollow Bake Off | October 20, 2013

## Music

### Songs

* "To the Fairies They Draw Near" by Loreena McKennitt

## Books

### Fairy Dust Trilogy

At the opening of the 2005 Bologna International Children's Book Fair, the Walt Disney Company revealed its plan to introduce a children's illustrated novel for girls 6–10 years of age. Disney Fairies debuted September 2005, when Disney Publishing Worldwide unveiled the novel Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg, written by Newbery Honor-winning author Gail Carson Levine with a $1 million marketing and publicity campaign and a virtual world. It was released in 45 countries and 32 languages and became a New York Times bestseller and has already sold over 1 million copies worldwide.

The story begins in Fairy Haven/Pixie Hollow, located in the heart of Never Land. Prilla, who is a brand-new fairy, born of a baby's laugh, arrives in Never Land and discovers that she has no talent for any of the fairy avocations. Tinker Bell takes Prilla to see Mother Dove, but before the wise bird can advise Prilla, Never Land is shaken by a terrible hurricane. Mother Dove is thrown off her nest and her precious egg, which holds all the secrets of Never Land, is shattered. Immediately, all those who live in Never Land begin to age. The island's only hope is for some brave fairies to take the egg pieces to Kyto the dragon and ask him to restore it with his fiery breath.

The book was followed in 2007 by a sequel, entitled Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand'. Another sequel, Fairies and the Quest for Never Land', was released in 2010.

In the Year of a Million Dreams celebration, book stores released a form submitting a fairy character. The winner is said to be put in his/her fairy book.

### Tales of Pixie Hollow

Random House has published a series of chapter books starting soon after the release of the first novel under the banner Tales of Pixie Hollow.

### Step Into Reading

* The Great Fairy Race (Step 3)
* A Fairy Tale (Step 3)
* A Game of Hide-and-Seek (Step 3)
* Tink's Treasure Hunt (Step 3)
* Beck's Bunny Secret (Step 3)
* Vidia Takes Charge (Step 3)
* New Friends (Step 3)
* The Fairy Berry Bake-Off (Step 4)
* Pixie Hollow Paint Day (Step 4)
* A Dozen Fairy Dresses (Step 4)
* Please Don't Feed the Tiger Lily (Step 4)
* A Fairy Frost (Step 4)

### The Never Girls

In January 2013, PDW launched Never Girls chapter book series extension of the Disney Fairies franchise under publishing partner Random House's Stepping Stone imprint. The Never Girls chapter series reached the New York Times Best Seller List – Children's Series on the week of August 10. Random House retained publication of this line despite the move of the franchise's general move to Little, Brown in February 2014.

### Leveled Readers

* Disney Fairies: Meet Tinker Bell
* Disney Fairies: Meet Zarina the Pirate Fairy
* Disney Fairies: Meet Vidia
* Disney Fairies: Meet Periwinkle
* Disney Fairies: Meet Fawn the Animal-Talent Fairy
* Disney Fairies: Meet Nyx the Scout Fairy
* Disney Fairies: Meet Rosetta
* Disney Fairies: Meet Silvermist
* Disney Fairies: Meet Iridessa

### Disney Fairies Magazine

In June 2006, Egmont Magazines launched a new monthly magazine for girls 5–9 years old, produced by The Walt Disney Company Italia, S.p.A. and published in Italy a couple of months before the Egmont translations.

The magazine, entitled Fairies, began with an initial print of 110,000 copies and a cover price of £1.99. The magazine's content is centered on Tinker Bell, and her fairy friends from the Pixie Hollow. Each issue features: a collectable pull-out story, games, puzzles, posters and coloring pages. Fairies Magazine has been launched in: Italy, Malaysia, Singapore, Poland, Russia, Spain, the Nordic countries, Portugal, Germany and Benelux.

### Graphic Novels

In May 2009, Papercutz publishing pickup a license to produce original graphic novels to hit the stands in April 2010 at the rate of four per year.

The 2007 manga and 2008 graphic novel "Disney Fairies: Petite's Little Diary", published by Kodansha and distributed by Tokyopop, follows the misadventures of Tinker Bell and her friends.

## Disney Parks

### Pixie Hollow

In October 2008, two Pixie Hollow locations opened at Disney Parks. One opened at Disneyland near the Matterhorn Bobsleds in the area where Ariel's Grotto was formerly located and the other at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom in Mickey's Toontown. Another version opened at Hong Kong Disneyland on January 21, 2011, as one of the festivities to celebrate the park's 5th anniversary. At these Pixie Hollow locations, guests have the opportunity to meet and greet Tinker Bell and her fairy friends Silvermist, Rosetta, Iridessa, Fawn, Terence and Vidia and her twin sister Periwinkle, from the franchise, as well as dine with them.

The Magic Kingdom location closed in February 2011 as part of the ongoing Fantasyland expansion. A larger Pixie Hollow area was included in the original plans for the expansion, but they have since been abandoned. On July 28, 2011, Tinker Bell and friends returned to the Magic Kingdom in "Tinker Bell's Magical Nook," located at the Adventureland Veranda. However, in 2014, it was closed and Tinker Bell moved to Town Square Theater where she can greet guests alone.