Such a fun and entertaining read!

Will definitely keep child curious an occupied,

I liked the illustrations and message, that you can't feel grumpy all the time!

I received an advance copy of, The Grumpy Fairies, by Bethan Stevens. This is a cute story of how attitude affects your life, even for little grumpy fairies.

Review to come to blog April 15th and a bit later on Goodreads/other places.

I received this book from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.

I was immediately intrigued by the title, grumpy fairies? Most books about fairies have the fairies be happy, shiny, giggly, glittery. I think I have read a couple with fairies having different emotions, but general consensus for books seem to have them happy. So I was eager to get to read (plus that art was just adorable).

In this book we meet the fairies. Who live in a beautiful tree village in beautiful soft yellow/brown colours. Most of the fairies are happy and helpful, but we meet a group of tiny fairies who is GRUMPY, who DON'T want to help, who just want to lie around and grump. I had a big laugh about this grumpy group, especially since they had to drag some of their group along. Haha. And I just LOVED their facial expressions. Yep, these fairies are deep into grumpy mood!

During their walk outside they meet all sorts of animals who are all sugary sweet and the fairies have none if it. Which was kind of rude, but I also could relate. Haha, I know that if I am in a grumpy mood you shouldn't talk to me, especially not with sugar and sweetness. But I do would have liked to see the birds/animals understand a grumpy mood and I would have liked the grumpy fairies to listen, even if just a bit.

I do worry a bit about the message this one gives. I mean, kids are going to be grumpy, adults are going to be grumpy. Yes, it is not a nice thing if done daily, but sometimes people just need to grump out. To threaten grumpiness with being eaten is a bit too far for me. Everyone is allowed to have grumpy days without having the threat of being nommed on. Maybe me. But it feels like you HAVE to be happy and good and all that. Maybe I just see the message wrong, but it is how it came across to me. Plus, hello, I would also turn a bit grumpy if everyone around me was 24/7 happy and sparkly and helpful. Haha. I mean even the animals are all syrupy and sweet.

I did love the art though! The expressions, the colours, how despite the grump everything is soft and fluffy in colours.

So I am a bit conflicted. Great art, love that there are grumpy fairies, but I just don't like the whole you are being eaten if you are not sweet and helpful message.

The pictures are cute, the concept is cute, but too much cuteness and too much of a heavy hand can make for what looks like a cleaver book, see a little off.

The basic concept is that child fairies are sometimes too grumpy to be helpful fairies. So what changes them is not that they get ungrumpy, but that they realize if they remain that way, they will be eaten.

So, they become helpful fairies, and that saves them.

see what I mean about being heavy handed?

<em>Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review. </em>

Such a cute book with great illustrations! It will definitely help children understand that life is better when you’re kind, not grumpy!

A very competent, quick read for the little'uns. Some fairies in the forest are so intent on being grumpy they ignore all requests for their gentle, fairy-like help. Until... A perfect book might have made more of the repeated lines of dialogue the critters they meet provide, but even if the target audience is given less compulsion to join in there is still pleasure to be had here. It's a good little story, and the moral is worn very lightly considering. What appears to be a debut book shows a lot of promise.

The Grumpy Fairies by Bethan Stevens is a fun picture book about grumpy fairies who throw tantrums and don't want to help. The illustrations are gorgeous and very funny at times. This would be a fun book to read with children who can be crabby. It shows that being helpful and happy is sometimes easier and more beneficial that giving into negative emotions and fighting. This would be a great book for preschool-kindergarten aged children.

Thank you Frances Lincoln Children's Books and NetGalley for providing this ARC.