Strange things are happening to the ice cream in Wetherbury - it's all gone sloppy and green! Kirsty and Rachel must help Esme the Ice Cream Fairy track down her magical charm. But can they find it before Jack Frost and the goblins do?
Appearance[]
Esme has long, shiny black hair. She wears a yellow and pink swirl-striped t-shirt, paired with yellow skinny jeans and a pink belt with a bow on the front. She also wears pink high-top trainers, a long necklace with an orange cone pendant, and an ice cream charm bracelet. Her wings are diamond-shaped and yellow-tinted.
Symbol: Miniature strawberry, chocolate and vanilla ice cream cones.
Magic object/Job[]
Magic Object: Ice cream charm
Job: Esme's job is to make sure that all ice cream tastes delicious and does not melt.
Story Summary[]
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Mrs Tate gives the girls some spending money
Rachel, Kirsty and Mrs Tate are seeing Aunt Harri off as she leaves for work. Mrs Tate allows the girls to look around the market stalls, and the girls go to the ice cream van. The ice cream man Charlie gives the girls some ice cream samples, but they all taste flavourless and then melt. As Charlie searches through his van for more ice cream, the girls find Esme hiding in the van, and tell her how the ice cream taste terrible. At that moment, Charlie reappears and says all his ice cream melted, so he’ll have to close while he sorts it out. The girls move on through the market, bumping into Kirsty’s schoolmates Liam and Jamal. They’re holding ice cream which tastes great, and direct them to the bright green van they got them from. The girls find goblins in the van, and turn into fairies to sneak inside to explore.
Kirsty and Rachel, disguised as goblins, start a food fight
They overhear the goblins talking about saving enough ice cream for Jack Frost’s swimming pool. While they bicker over their favourite flavours, the girls search through the van and in their pockets but there’s no sign of the magic charm. Rachel theorises the charm might be hidden under one of the goblins’ hats, and Kirsty suggests they instigate a food fight that will knock their hats off. Esme enchants her voice to make it sound like a loudspeaker, announcing the ice cream has sold out, making the queue clear. Then she turns the girls into goblin ice cream vendors. The girls start to throw ice cream at each other, and soon enough the other goblins join in. Eventually they find the charm under one goblin’s hat, and Esme flies over to get it, but the goblins see her and run away.
The goblins with a bathtub of ice cream
Kirsty knows how to corner them, and the girls call out directions on avoiding Esme to the goblin. When he hits a dead-end, Rachel tells the goblin to throw the charm to her, and he does, but she hands it to Esme and their goblin disguises melt away. The goblins are worried about Jack Frost’s reaction to their failure, so Esme magics them a bathtub of ice cream instead, and the goblins leave graciously. The girls return to the marketplace where they see a long line outside Charlie’s ice cream van. Esme goes back to Fairyland and the girls get their ice creams.
"Rachel smiled, too, and felt a fluttery feeling inside at the thought of a surprise waiting for them. Whenever she and Kirsty got together, life was always full of surprises!"
"Kirsty and Rachel hadn’t hesitated for a second. Of course they’d help – they loved going to Fairyland!"
"Rachel giggled at the sight of her and Kirsty. They looked just like the goblins, and had trays of ice cream hanging around their necks. “We definitely look nicer as fairies than goblins!” she said."
