Tinkerbell: A Guide to Pixie Hollow

There are two ways to look at this small book, and how you do so depends on whether you are a child, or perhaps an adult who thinks like a child, or whether you are an adult full of the skepticism and cynicism of many adults.

The book is filled with beautiful illustrations of places and fairies in Pixie Hollow. A number of the fairies are noted by name, along with the types of things they like.

There are a couple of the fairies that don't quite fit the normal artistic style that has been used in previous Disney books, as one is wearing glasses and two of them are overweight.

A child would read the book and thoroughly enjoy it. It's colorful, it's pretty, and it's about fairies. What's not to like about such a book?

On the other hand, a cynical adult would read the same book and possibly come to the conclusion that all the new fairies featured are really just references for various tie-in products that will come out for the Tinkerbell movie, and that's the only reason they are there. The fairies with glasses and the overweight fairies are there for political correctness purposes. Such an adult would get no joy out of the book at all.

Which way do you look at it?

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