The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home
Quite by accident, September has been crowned as Queen of Fairyland – but she inherits a Kingdom in chaos.
The magic of a Dodo's egg has brought every King, Queen, or Marquess of Fairyland back to life, each with a fair and good claim on the throne, each with their own schemes and plots and horrible, hilarious, hungry histories.
In order to make sense of it all, and to save their friend from a job she doesn't want, A-Through-L and Saturday devise a Royal Race, a Monarckical Marathon, in which every outlandish would-be ruler of Fairyland will chase the Stoat of Arms across the whole of the nation – and the first to seize the poor beast will seize the crown.
Caught up in the madness are the changelings Hawthorn and Tamburlaine, the combat wombat Blunderbuss, the gramophone Scratch, the Green Wind, and September's parents, who have crossed the universe to find their daughter...
About the Fairyland Series
Books in series order
- 1.The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making(2011)
- 2.The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There(2012)
- 3.The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two(2013)
- 4.The Boy Who Lost Fairyland(2015)
- 5.The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home(2016)
- +The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While(2011)
Reading age: 10+ years
This series should be read in order.
Gather up your courage and your wishes; grab a little pinch of luck and prepare to be swept away, in a ship of your own making, to a land unlike any other...
September is a twelve-year-old girl, Somewhat Grown and Somewhat Heartless, and she longs for adventure. So when a Green Wind and a Leopard of Little Breezes invite her to Fairyland – well, of course, she accepts (mightn't you?).
When she gets there, she finds a land in crisis and confusion—crushed by the iron rule of a villainous Marquess—she soon discovers that she alone holds the key to restoring order. Having read enough books to know what a girl with a quest must do, September sets out to Fix Things.
As September forges her way through Fairyland, with a book-loving dragon and a partly human boy named Saturday by her side, she makes many friends and mistakes; loses her shadow, her shoes and her way. But she finds adventure, courage, a rather special Spoon, and a lot more besides...