Izzy the Indigo Fairy

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Saffron was trapped in one of Mrs. Merry's beehives. Yellow butterflies fall from her wand. She has short blonde hair and wears a yellow t-shirt with a butterfly in the corner, yellow shorts with a butterfly at the bottom, and yellow trainers. Of the seven Rainbow Fairies books, Izzy's book underwent the most changes when it was published in the US, mostly minor terminology edits for things that might be unfamiliar to American children. Toffee became caramel, Cornet's name was changed to Cone, currants became chocolate chips, and lemon sherbet became cocoa powder. Izzy's adventure takes place in the land of Sweets, in this adventure the girls and Izzy meet the sugarplum fairy, elves, gingerbread men, and travel in a pink bubblegum balloon.

it's literally like "such a wonderful secret, we have to save the world. also a wonderful secret: fairyland is gray"

But, oftentimes, I couldn't figure out why the wording was changed. The British version used words like "gleaming", "beside", "odd", and "little" - all perfectly acceptable words - but the American version replaced those words with synonyms like "shining", "next to", "strange", and "small", respectively. Why!? It seemed so arbitrary. These type of seemingly inexplicable changes were very common. It was fascinating. Very frequently, the American version changed or added words, presumably to make the text more descriptive. Over and over, the original British version had "they", but the American version specified "the girls". Other changes include: Amber was trapped in a creamy orange scallop shell. Orange bubbles emanate from her wand. She has flame-colored hair tied up with peach blossoms and wears an orange catsuit with long boots. Izzy is the mascot for the Rainbow Fairies series and every Holiday Special book in the traditional layout.

In the books, she is quite troublesome, causing mischief wherever she goes. This happens in the land of sweets when she turns the lemonade indigo, and a gingerbread man's bowtie indigo. On the other side of the arch, the sun shone down warmly from a bright blue sky. Flowers made of whipped cream grew underneath chocolate trees. Squishy pink and white marshmallow houses lined the street, which was paved with jelly beans." Izzy is very wise and calm. In the book, she is described as being a bit cheeky. She is also active and always ready for an adventure. She gets on well with everybody and easily makes friends. Even though she has a calm nature, she can be a bit mischievous at times. She is also shown to be a big fan of music, as revealed in the film As suggested by the end of Heather the Violet Fairy, the Rainbow Fairies set was originally meant to be a stand-alone series, before its popularity gave the creators a reason to prolong it by writing more series.

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Narinder Dhami was born in Wolverhampton, England on November 15, 1958. She received a degree in English from Birmingham University in 1980. After having taught in primary and secondary schools for several years she began to write full-time. Dhami has published many retellings of popular Disney stories and wrote the Animal Stars and Babes series, the latter about young British girls of Asian origin. She lives in Cambridge, England with her husband and cats. I just realized that idk if the goblin's genders have ever been specified idk they might've but if they haven't I feel bad because I've been misgendering them She was the only Rainbow fairy to be trapped in a book instead of an actual location on Rainspell Island.