Wings of Starlight

Wings of Starlight is the latest addition to Disney Fairies and the first Young Adult entry in a series that primarily targets younger audiences. This multimedia canon explores the background of Tinker Bell, as presented in the 1953 Disney animated film Peter Pan, which was, in turn, based on J. M. Barrie’s novel Peter Pan (1911). Currently, the Disney Fairies series comprises animated films, novels, chapter books, and graphic novels.

Disney Fairies launched in 2005 with the release of the book Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg, written by Gail Carson Levine (best known for her 1997 novel Ella Enchanted) and illustrated by David Christiana. It established the realm of Pixie Hollow, hidden in Never Land. The protagonists are the Never Fairies, born from babies’ first laughs and gifted with “talents” that dictate their interests and abilities. These include water or light-talent fairies as well as baking or tinker-talent fairies. The popularity of this first book led to two more novels by Levine in what became the Fairy Dust trilogy: Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand (2007) and Fairies and the Quest for Never Land (2010) as well as a series of chapter books and short story collections, targeting younger readers, that focused on the characters established in the trilogy: Prilla, Rani, Beck, Fira, Vidia, and the preexisting Tinker Bell.