| Honey the Sweet Fairy | International |
| Race | Fairy |
| Gender | ♀ Female |
| Series | Party Fairies |
| Magical Item(s) / Animal(s) | A yellow party bag |
| Symbol(s) | Yellow sweets |
Honey the Sweet Fairy (U.S. name: Honey the Candy Fairy) is the fourth fairy in the Party Fairies series.
Fairy Profile from the Official RM Facebook Page[]
Honey makes sure there are enough treats to go around. All kinds of candy and sweets grow on trees in her Fairyland garden, where you will also find a sherbet fountain. Her shimmering amber fairy dust smells like sweet honey. Because she has a sweet tooth herself, and can't help but sample her own sugary creations, Honey is a dedicated fitness buff. She jogs every morning, and she never forgets to brush her teeth! Honey is also very good at curing tummy aches.
Blurb[]
Honey the Sweet Fairy can't make any new sweets without her magic party bag of fairy dust. Can Rachel and Kirsty save it from the goblin so Honey can help the party fizz again?
Appearance[]
Honey has golden hair pulled into a side ponytail with a sweet-shaped hair jewel. She wears a bright yellow dress with a yellow shawl hanging down from her top, sherbet-yellow ballet slippers, a sweet-shaped pendant necklace, and a chain around her ankle. Her wings are diamond-shaped and yellow-tinted.
Magical object/Job[]
Magic Object: Yellow party bag.
Job: Ensuring that parties everywhere have delicious sweets for everyone.
Story Summary[]
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While Rachel and Kirsty enjoy a picnic lunch in the garden, they overhear Mrs Tate say she’s forgotten to pick up the toffees she promised to bring Gran. Kirsty volunteers herself and Rachel to run an errand to Mrs. Twist’s Sweet Shop, which will be having a celebration that day as Mrs Twist retires and passes the business to her daughter. When the girls reach the shop, however, children are complaining that all the sweets taste strange, and Mrs. Twist is very disappointed. Kirsty notices that some of the animal-shaped candies are acting scared and pushes a jar out of sight before anyone else sees them moving. Mrs. Twist exclaims over a tray of chocolates that have all melted together with a footprint in the middle - a goblin footprint, matching the chocolatey tracks Rachel spies on the floor. The tracks lead to the stockroom door, behind which the girls hear a crash. Kirsty offers to fetch more sweets from the stockroom to replace the spoiled ones, and she and Rachel walk in to discover the noise is coming from a goblin struggling to pull a party bag out of Honey the Sweet Fairy’s hands.
Honey calls for help, and the girls begin pelting the goblin with gobstoppers. He lets go of the bag so suddenly that Honey loses her grip on it too, and all the golden fairy dust spills out. The goblin starts scooping up handfuls, but the girls tickle him with candy canes until he slips on a gobstopper, the fairy dust falling and disappearing. Honey enchants several candy canes to move and herd the goblin out the back door of the store. Unfortunately, her magic bag is now empty.
Mrs. Twist begins calling for the girls, who panic at the mess and the sound of more customers in the main store. Honey decides to turn them into fairies and bring them to Fairyland, where they find a beautiful golden castle that turns out to be the same Party Workshop that Bertram had showed them the inside of. The girls take a brief tour, starting with Cherry’s bakery where the captive goblin who attacked Kirsty’s birthday party is skilfully icing cakes and Cherry offers them blackberry tarts. Next comes a large room of decorations, where Grace greets them, and the musicians’ balcony where Melodie is directing a frog orchestra, which includes Bertram with his bugle. In the great hall below the balcony, the Fairy Godmother listens to Honey’s explanation of the problem and sends her and the girls to the fairy Sweet Factory with some magical wind. On the way, they pass Jasmine magically tying ribbons around presents - and Rachel’s ponytail, Phoebe working on a golden ballgown that waves at the girls as they pass, and Polly chasing a flying present as part of a new game she’s made up. At last the wind stops in an orchard where sugared fruit candies grow on trees. One fairy skips with a liquorice rope, while another makes a line of flying bonbons dip themselves in sugar. Honey refills her bag with fairy dust and selects various fairy sweets to bring to Mrs. Twist’s shop, adding some toffees for Gran at Kirsty’s request. She then magics them all back to the shop at the same instant they’d left, turning the girls into humans at the same time.
A wave of Honey’s wand neatens up the stockroom before the fairy says goodbye and leaves in a puff of golden sparkles. The girls bring the fairy sweets out to Mrs. Twist, and they’re an instant hit - especially the fairy-shaped ones that Mrs. Twist didn’t remember buying. Kirsty remembers the toffees in her pocket and tells Rachel they should deliver them to Gran quickly before she herself starts eating them. Both girls agree this has been their tastiest adventure yet.Trivia[]
- In this story, Honey takes Kirsty and Rachel off to her Fairyland Sweet Factory. The girls visit the factory a second time in the Sweet Fairies stories.
- Honey's helpers are the Sweet Fairies, revealed in Lottie the Lollipop Fairy. She works closely with them to ensure fabulous treats for everyone!
- Honey loves inventing new candy. She has lots of fun taste-testing her creations with the other Party Fairies.
- In the U.S. print, Honey's sweet dust is renamed to candy dust.
- She is friends with the Candy Land Fairies.
- Like other books that mention sweets/candies, Honey's book underwent several changes when it was published in the US to remove mentions of sweets that American readers would be unfamiliar with. In Mrs. Twist's shop, the candied pineapple becomes saltwater taffy, and the jelly babies become gingerbread men. Sherbet that fizzes too much becomes sour balls that are too sour, humbugs humming nervously become squeaking chocolate bunnies, and jelly snakes and gobstoppers go by their American names of gummy worms and jawbreakers. The pear drops mentioned in Honey's orchard are replaced with caramel apples.
- Honey's is the first book to have the illustrations changed in the US version, with labels on various candy boxes being edited to match the text. Interestingly, the toffees mentioned at the beginning of the book are not renamed by the US book despite toffee being a popular British sweet.
Etymology[]
Honey's name comes from the sticky substance, honey. Honey is made by bees with a sweet taste. It can be used as a substitute for sugar.
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