Race | Fairy |
Gender | ♀ Female |
Series | Special Edition |
Magical Item(s) / Animal(s) | Scarf, pumpkin, ruby-red leaf |
Symbol(s) | Different coloured leaves |
Location | New Growth Farm |
Special Thanks | Kristin Earhart |
Publish date | 27 August 2013 |
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Autumn the Falling Leaves Fairy is the 6th fairy in the U.S Special Editions series.
Blurb[]
Rachel and Kirsty love the fall! They can't wait to go apple picking, carve pumpkins, and take a hayride. But this fall, everything is going all wrong - because Autumn the Falling Leaves Fairy's magic is missing!
Can the girls help her outsmart Jack Frost and his goblins, and make sure that fall is fun again? OR will there be calendar confusion ahead, if Jack Frost gets his way?
Appearance[]
Autumn has tan skin with long, maroon hair. She wears a sparkly, blue jacket over a yellow and purple polka dot top and purple jeans tucked into knee-length boots. She has an orange-and-white striped scarf wrapped around her neck. Her wings are pointy and greyish-lilac tinted.
Symbol: Red, yellow and orange leaves.
Magic Objects/Job[]
Magic Objects:
- The Scarf: controls the light breeze.
- The Pumpkin: looks over all harvest festivals.
- The Ruby-Red Leaf: makes sure the leaves on the trees change colour and fall to the ground.
Job: Autumn's job is to make sure the Autumn/fall season is fun for everybody all over the globe.
Jack Frost's Poem[]
Why have four seasons every year?
I like my weather more severe.
Who needs autumn's golden leaves?
Who likes fall's first crisp, light breeze?
I like ice and snow and hail!
My frosty season will prevail.
I'll steal that fall fairy's magic things,
Now feel the chill an endless winter brings!
Story Summary[]
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A Brisk Breeze[]
Rachel, Kirsty and Mrs Tate are driving to New Growth Farm to help the farmer, Kyra, prepare for the Fall Festival. Along the way, they see rotten crops, dry fields and cows struggling to find grass to eat. Kirsty hopes it's Jack Frost causing trouble, but Rachel exclaims how can she hope that, and her friend replies if it's him they can do something. Kyra greets them when they arrive, and explains as the temperature rised, the fruit began rotting and the crops drooped. The girls hear a buzzing sound which turns out to be a fairy whispering. While Kyra and Mrs Tate talk, the girls talk to the fairy. She introduces herself as Autumn the Falling Leaves Fairy, and explains that Jack Frost is tricking nature by skipping fall and going straight to winter, by stealing her magic objects and hiding them with a spell. With her magic objects missing, the summer season will continue until the objects are found.
The girls search for wood for the bonfire, and they go to the pond. They see something glowing and Autumn says it looks like frost, linking it to her magic scarf. She turns the girls into fairies and they fly across. They find a group of goblins, with one running away wearing the scarf. He jumps into a rowboat and the fairies alert him. He rows to the centre of the pond and the fairies sit on a tree branch to think of a plan but they're too hot. They watch the other goblins heckle the goblin with the scarf and throw acorns, making him panic and frightened. The fairies fly over to convince him to give the scarf back, but then a frog jumps into the pond with a splash making him throw the scarf and Autumn catches it. The fairies tow the goblin's rowboat to shore as the wind starts again and Autumn returns the girls to human size, and their wheelbarrow is full of firewood. She thanks them and disappears to Fairyland, and the girls return to the barnyard.
A Plump Pumpkin[]
The girls wake up the next morning and go downstairs to find Mrs Tate, who explains the newspaper reported farmers like Kyra are having trouble with their harvests. She and the girls go to New Growth Farm, where Kyra sends the girls to pick gourds to use as prizes for that day's games. As they walk along, they hear sneezing and find Autumn, now with a cold. She explains to find her magic pumpkin, it will smell like pumpkin bread. Kirsty uses her sense of smell, but instead smells chocolate and Rachel points out the muffins she packed in her backpack. As they eat, Kirsty smells cinnamon and pumpkin, and Autumn turns them into fairies. They follow the scent and find a bare patch in the field where a goblin is sitting on top of the magic pumpkin and three other goblins close by. The goblins run off in search of pumpkin bread, not realising the smell is coming from the magic pumpkin, and Autumn and the girls fly to another area of the field to think of a plan. Then a groundhog and other animals get their attention and join the fairies on their plan.
The animals create a underground tunnel that the fairies crawl through and, while the birds lure the goblin away using pumpkin bread that Autumn magicked up, Autumn shrinks the pumpkin to fairy size and they fly out of the tunnel. The fairies join the animals to celebrate and Autumn uses her magic to load the girls' wheelbarrows with gourds. She goes back to Fairyland and the girls head back to the farm.
A Leaf of Ruby Red[]
Rachel and Kirsty are helping to prepare for the Leaf Leap, but the leaves are still green and not falling from the trees. Autumn appears and they look for her ruby-red leaf until Kirsty suggests looking in the forest. They turn into fairies and enter, hearing whispers. Flying above the trees, they notice a single tree with colourful leaves and suspect that's where the goblins and the leaf are. As they approach, a bolt of icy magic hits the tree and they suspect Jack Frost took the goblins and the leaf back to his Ice Castle. Autumn leads the girls to a stream where she creates a Seeing Pool. The Fairy Godmother appears and explains her plan for them. The girls and Autumn travel to a forest near the Ice Castle and see goblins marching through, one of whom is waving the magic leaf about, making the surrounding trees leaves turn brown and drop. Kirsty tries to grab the magic leaf, but this causes the goblins to run back to the Ice Castle and the trees become bare.
Autumn uses her scarf's magic to start melting the Ice Castle while Kirsty and Rachel enter. They find Jack Frost in his throne room holding the magic leaf and the water level is rising. Autumn reasons with Jack Frost to give her leaf back when ice drips onto him and he hands her leaf back. Autumn sends Rachel and Kirsty out of the castle back to the human world while she and Jack Frost work together to reverse the melting spell. The girls briefly see the forest flooded before finding themselves on the farm and seeing people raking leaves for the jump. The pair join the event and see Autumn at the edge of the forest. She thanks them by giving them scarfs and disappears, and the girls re-join the Fall Festival.Trivia[]
- This book marks one of The Fairy Godmother's few appearances.
- Autumn is best friends with Abigail the Breeze Fairy.
- Autumn loves to knit.
Etymology[]
Autumn's name comes from the season, autumn. Autumn is the season where leaves change colour and fall off the trees.
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