Fairy Mom and Me by Sophie Kinsella

Title: Fairy Mom and Me

Author: Sophie Kinsella

Read by:  Cassandra Morris

Publisher: Books On Tape Listening Library

Length: Approximately 1 hour and 23 minutes

Source: Kewaunee Public Library.  Thank-you!

We listened to Fairy Mom and Me as a family on a recent trip for the family read together summer library challenge.  This was one of the six books you could select and read as a family.  With three kids ages 13, 11, and 8 – it is much easier to listen to the audiobooks in the car where we were all in the same place at the same time.

My eight year old daughter enjoyed Fairy Mom and Me, but the rest of the family did not.  There wasn’t much of a plot and it was very repetitive.  Basically Ella’s Mom is a fairy and has a computerized wand.  She is constantly messing up spells and then things have to get fixed.  Ella also has a bit of a bullying situation going on. As 11 year old Daniel said, he didn’t understand why she kept messing up the spells as they were very intuitive and basic.

Cassandra Morris was a good narrator with a pleasing voice. There was a nice list of discussion questions at the end of the audiobook.  We would have discussed them, but all of us were so happy the book was over we didn’t do any discussion. 

I would recommend this book to those with kids eight years old or younger.  It is not entertaining for the entire family as other audiobooks are (especially Roald Dahl books).