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Milly the River Fairy
Race Fairy
Gender ♀ Female
Series Green Fairies
Magical Item(s) / Animal(s) Wand
Symbol(s) Blue water droplets


Milly the River Fairy is the sixth fairy in the Green Fairies series.

Blurb[]

Mean Jack Frost has stolen all of the Green Fairies' wands, as he thinks his goblins are the only real green creatures in the world! Kirsty and Rachel must find the wand and return it to Milly... But this involves a river chase and some white water rapids!

Appearance[]

Milly has long honey blonde hair with a braid running along the top of her head. She wears a strapless, blue top paired with a matching blue-green skirt. She is barefoot. Milly also wears a necklace with a blue raindrop and a matching bracelet on her right wrist. Her wings are diamond-shaped and light blue-tinted.

Symbol: Blue water droplets.

Magic object/Job[]

Magic Object: Her wand

Job: Looking after all waterways, rivers and ponds. She also makes sure they're clean and there is no rubbish in it. 

Story Summary[]

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On a chilly, windy day, Rachel and Kirsty have made paper boats to sail across a small lake. They set the boats in the water and then run around to the downwind bank to retrieve the boats when they arrive. But an old tyre sticking out of the water looks like it will get in the way. Rachel notices Milly the River Fairy riding Kirsty’s boat, and Kirsty realises that Milly hasn’t noticed the tyre. She and Rachel try to warn the fairy, but the boats collide with the tyre too quickly and Milly barely manages to fly away before they sink. When Milly greets the girls, Kirsty apologises for adding more litter to the lake, and Milly says she can help if they find her wand, which is somewhat nearby. She turns the girls into fairies and transports them magically to the bank of a wide river.

At first, the scenery is lovely, but when the three fairies round a bend in the river they find a factory with a waste pipe dumping yellowish scum onto the water. Milly is starting to tell the girls all the problems such pollution causes when she notices a deer about to drink from the river. She quickly directs the deer upstream instead, and the deer tells the fairies that she’s only come this far upstream because there are some green creatures making a lot of noise where she usually drinks. Milly thanks the deer, and she and the girls hurry downstream to find four Goblins playing around on two rafts made of tied-together rubbish. One of them has Milly’s wand.

Kirsty suggests flying down to grab the wand from above, which almost works - except the raft hits a rock in the river and the startled goblin drops the wand into the water. Fairies and goblins all begin chasing after the floating wand as the river gets faster and rougher. To their disgust, Rachel and Kirsty find themselves dodging a lot of floating rubbish. They manage to pick up the wand for a moment, but a goblin makes a grab for it and it ends up back in the water just as one goblin notices a waterfall ahead.

As the rafts, the goblins, and the wand plunge over the falls, Rachel is able to catch the wand in midair. It’s big and heavy for her, but once Milly touches it it shrinks from goblin-size to fairy-size in time for Rachel to fly to safety and Milly to move the rafts into place to catch the goblins at the bottom of the falls, then over to the bank of the river. Flying back upstream with the girls, Milly makes the rubbish and the scum vanish but warns the girls the river won’t stay clean unless people stop polluting it. She sends the girls back to Rainspell Island, where they find that the tyre in the lake has disappeared and their paper boats are waiting for them among some reeds, dried and with pictures of fairy passengers drawn on. Talking about writing to local factories about pollution, and how they’re going to rescue the last wand, the girls head back towards their rental cottage.

Trivia[]

  • Milly and Hayley the Rain Fairy are best friends.
  • Her Greek name is Πηγή (Pigi), roughly meaning 'source' or 'fountain'.

Etymology[]

Milly is named after a friend of the book's author, Sue Mongredien. In the Special Thanks section, the book is dedicated to "Milly Johnson".


v - e
Green
Characters
Main: Kirsty Tate ~ Rachel Walker

Green Fairies: Nicole the Beach Fairy ~ Isabella the Air Fairy ~ Edie the Garden Fairy ~ Coral the Reef Fairy ~ Lily the Rainforest Fairy ~ Milly the River Fairy ~ Carrie the Snow Cap Fairy
Fairyland: King Oberon ~ Queen Titania ~ Jack Frost ~ Goblins
Human world: Mr Tate ~ Mrs Tate ~ Mr Walker ~ Mrs Walker ~ Mayor
Others: Bertram

Locations
Human world: Rainspell Island ~ Seabury
Rainspell green

Fairyland: Fairyland Palace ~ Ice Castle

Authors
Narinder Dhami ~ Sue Mongredien
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