Pearl the Cloud Fairy | International |
Race | Fairy |
Gender | ♀ Female |
Series | Weather Fairies |
Magical Item(s) / Animal(s) | The Cloud Feather |
Symbol(s) | Pink and white sunset clouds |
Pearl the Cloud Fairy is the third fairy of the Weather Fairies series.
Fairy Profile from the Official RM Facebook Page[]
Whether light and fluffy or gray and stormy, Pearl determines what kind of clouds will fill the sky. Little pink and white sunset clouds drift and swirl out of her pretty pink wand.
Pearl is often caught daydreaming, since her head is always in the clouds.
Blurb[]
Pearl the Cloud Fairy is down in the dumps without her fluffy cloud feather. Rachel and Kirsty need a ticklish plan to cheer her up.
Appearance[]
Pearl has pale skin with glossy, black hair pulled into a braid. She wears a pink and white dress with matching pink and white striped knee-length socks and black shoes. She has pink pearl bracelets on her wrists and a pink and white sunset cloud pendant. Her wings are round and pink-tinted.
Symbol: Pink and white sunset clouds.
Magical object/Job[]
Magic Object: The Cloud Feather, described as "pearly grey" in the UK book, is not described in the US book.
Job: Controlling clouds and determines whether they're light and fluffy or grey and stormy.
Story Summary[]
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Kirsty and Rachel wake up on a cloudy morning, talking about Doodle. Downstairs, Kirsty’s elderly neighbours Mr. and Mrs. Twitching have come by asking if anyone has seen their cat Fidget, who’s gone missing. As Kirsty lets them in to ask her parents, she notices tiny wispy clouds over their heads, but no one else (not even Rachel) sees them. The girls go outside to look for the cat, and notice that everyone in the village is acting far gloomier than usual. The crowd leaving the cinema before lunch looks glum despite the movie being a comedy. This time, Rachel also sees the little grey clouds over their heads. Back home for lunch, Kirsty’s parents also have clouds - a pink one over Mrs Tate and a dark one over Mr Tate. The girls report not finding Fidget and eat lunch, then go upstairs to find Pearl the Cloud Fairy on Kirsty’s windowsill. She greets them and points out she and the girls now have clouds over their heads too, meaning the goblin with the Cloud Feather must be nearby.
They go back outside and find everyone has a cloud which seems to correspond to their mood - sunset clouds are calm or happy, grey clouds are glum, raining clouds are sad and lightning clouds are angry. Pearl explains only magical beings (including girls who know about fairies) can see the clouds. They discover a stream of pink and white clouds coming out the chimney of the sweet factory just outside town, and deduce the Cloud Feather must be inside. The factory is locked because it’s Saturday, so the girls turn themselves into fairies and enter through an air vent. All the machines are on despite the factory being closed, and Rachel finds a plump goblin lying on a pink cloud and eating candyfloss straight from the machine with the Cloud Feather in his hand. Before she can tell Kirsty and Pearl, the goblin notices her and stuffs her into one of the small pink clouds he’s made with the feather. Worried Rachel might go up the chimney but unable to tell which cloud she’s in, Kirsty turns human and confronts the goblin while Pearl looks for Rachel. The goblin tries to hide the feather in his mouth, so Kirsty tickles his foot with a candyfloss stick until he laughs and spits it out - but he catches the feather before she can. Pearl returns with Rachel slowly eating her way out of the candyfloss cloud and offers to demonstrate what the Cloud Feather can do, like making clouds dance. The goblin says he can do that and sets all the pink clouds swirling around him, including Rachel’s cloud like Pearl planned. Rachel snatches the Cloud Feather as soon as she’s close enough, but needs Pearl’s help to make the spinning stop - both she and the goblin end up dizzy. The goblin makes a grab for the feather, loses his balance, and topples into the toffee wrapping machine which wraps him in silver foil and gift ribbon as the Kirsty turns herself into a fairy and escapes with Rachel and Pearl. Pearl fixes the weather and the mood clouds, and the girls go home as humans through the now-cheerful village to return the Cloud Feather to Doodle, who adds “Frost w-” to his warning message.
After Pearl leaves, Mrs. Tate tells the girls they’ve been invited to the Twitchings’ house for some good news. It turns out Fidget had three kittens, and Kirsty can have one once they’re old enough. Kirsty selects the black-and-white kitten and names her "Pearl" at Rachel’s suggestion.Trivia[]
- Pearl's favourite colour is pale pink, the colour of sunsets.
- Kirsty names her new kitten after Pearl.
- As with Izzy, many edits were made when publishing Pearl's book in the US due to sweets/candy terminology being different in the different dialects of English. Humbugs were renamed peppermints, sherbet was replaced with soft ice cream, toffees became caramels, and a mention of "boiled sweets" was deleted altogether. The candyfloss was referred to by its US name "cotton candy", and in the US version, Kirsty uses a peppermint stick, not a candyfloss stick, to tickle the goblin's foot.
Etymology[]
Pearl's name might have come from pearls, because they are often said to be "cloudy" in colour, and clouds might be considered "pearly white"
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