Chocolate Dreams (Candy Fairies) Is a Sweet Read for Girls Interested in Chapter Books

My daughter started to read on her own (and enjoy it!) lately, so I went a little overboard with the book-buying. We branched out and got a single chapter book for her since we saw that it involves not just fairies, but candy, too—two of her favorite things!

Chocolate Dreams is the first book in the Candy Fairies series by Helen Perelman, and I think we’ll be picking up more as soon as my daughter gets a little more used to the idea that yes, she can read these long books all by herself if she’ll stick to it and use a bookmark instead of trying to devour the whole story at once.

She’s intimidated by the length and some of the words are a little challenging for beginning readers, so I read it to her.

I have purchased some absolutely horrible chapter books in the past to use as bedtime stories. The writing in those was painful to read, especially out loud. Sometimes it seemed as if the author only knew between three and five adjectives, and every other sentence needed an adverb. Then there was the lack of plot.

Chocolate Dreams, and probably all the other books in the series, doesn’t have any of those problems. I think I was more into the story and solving the mystery than my daughter was at times.

The chocolate eggs needed for an event in Sugar Valley are missing, and Cocoa the fairy was responsible for keeping them safe. A troll named Mogu really took them. The fairies have to figure out who did it and get them back. Instead of violence, they outsmart the troll and save the day. It’s a cute story, and even the troll isn’t that scary. My daughter was a little nervous about him at first.

I think this is a cute book series for girls ages five to eight, whether you have to read the to them or they’re able to read them on their own.

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