Series:Rainbow Magic

The "Rainbow Magic" series, colloquially known as "X the Y Fairy", consists of all juvenile books, aimed at ages 5-12 (the "Rainbow Magic Reader" sub-series is aimed at 4-8). It appears that all of the covers were done by Georgie Ripper until about 2010. Most of the interiors for the first many books were also done by Georgie, although later books credit her with the cover and credit the interior illustrations to "Orchard Books".

Because of the limited bibliographic interest in this series, we encourage editors not to include the traditional illustration contents (Georgie's getting enough credit from all those covers) and not to include the multiple printings of these books. (As I write this, some books are up to at least their 28th printing.) Editors are invited to include later editions of these books, i.e. when published by different publishing houses. We are including only prices where we have been able to identify such prices for a first printing. This often allows the reader to interpolate prices for other books. To check on newer books not in this list, which should be added to this list, editors can check the Rainbow Magic main book page.

These books have been translated into various languages (12, according to one source), and we have not attempted to include those translations on this site either. Some lists of Daisy Meadow Fairy books available in other languages are:  Swedish books; German books and 2nd German list; Dutch books.  If you know of lists in other languages, we encourage you to add those lists here, instead of adding each of the individual books.

In addition to the books listed on this site, the series includes various "activity books," which generally do not meet our criteria for stories, and hence are not included.

All of these books are credited to "Daisy Meadows," a house pseudonym for several authors (9 at present). For more details about the attribution of individual books to the specific ghost writers, see the Bibliographic Comments page for Daisy Meadows.