Do You Believe in Fairies?

Dear Children, young and old,

I’m going to tell you something that may surprise or even shock you.

Now, brace yourselves, this is important stuff and it’s mustn’t go any further than just you and me, promise? Well, it has come to my attention that, are you ready? OK. I’ve come to notice that not everyone believes in fairies! I know, absolutely shocking, absurd. Honestly, people are starting to forget us, forget me even! It’s ridiculous, I mean there are thousands of fairies there really are.

Well there’s me for starters. I’m Pearl and my kind have been around for ages, years and years and years. I’m a tooth fairy. Yes we are real and yes there is a castle made from your unwanted teeth, and yes, of course we clean them first. How disgusting would it be if we didn’t?

It’s not just me out there, who do you think sends that cooling breeze your way on sweltering summer days? Who do you suppose makes it snow on Christmas day to make everything sparkle with magical whiteness? That would be Gust, the weather fairy, my big brother. And what about when you’re at school, eating your lunch and the lettuce is crunchy, the bread in spongy and your meals not too hot not too cold but just right? That would be Dine, the food fairy.

 But the sad truth is I don’t get much work these days. You see a fairy can’t enter a person’s life if they don’t believe in them. So I can’t give you a gift, which is usually money, in exchange for your tooth if you don’t believe in me. Castles won’t build themselves you know, we’ve taken to using synthetic teeth now because we are forever running out. But they’re not as good as real teeth. The paint keeps coming off. It’s not easy being a tooth fairy, I have to work extra hard now to collect teeth from all over the world and believe me, it’s a big world and that’s a lot of flying. So I had to get a ‘human’ job - you’re now in the company of a dentist’s assistant. It may hurt you, but it’s a joy when someone comes in complaining of an aching tooth. Having a tooth taken out may be painful for you, but it’s a new conservatory for us.

What I’m trying to say is, children, please don’t stop believing in us, and adults, stop being so serious all the time and let us make your lives fun. But obviously these sort of problems don’t fix themselves overnight. So I’m going to get all the fairies to write to you and you can write to us by using the Fairye-mail. With a bit of luck we will persuade you to believe in us again, and I can stop working as a dentist’s assistant.

Must go now, don’t want to be late for work!

Fairy love and wishes from Pearl

Pearl

P.S. Don’t forget to brush your teeth!

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Dear Children, young and old,

Have you seen my little sister Pearl? I’ve been flying for hours looking for her and I just can’t find her. She is always hiding from her big brother. Oh sorry how rude of me, I simply must introduce myself to you. But I expect you already know who I am don’t you? What do you mean you don’t? I am the most famous extra special fairy there is! Without me there would be no sun, no stars, no moon or rainbows. And what a silly dull world it would be then. My name is Gust, oh so Pearl did mention me. I knew she would, she likes to be related to fame. She told you what?! No no no, I’m not a simple weather fairy. I’m a Sky fairy, of course that does includes the weather but ‘Sky Fairy’ sounds more important don’t you think.

I’m an artist of the elements. Every evening I get out my magic brushes and paint the soft glow of a twilight sky. Next I tuck the Sun in bed and pull the dark blanket of night over the sky. Then I spend hours convincing the Moon to come out to play, then there are the stars. Little rascals. Each night they insist on playing hide and seek and of course I can’t leave until I’ve found each and every one. It’s a hard life being a sky Fairy. You don’t get much credit either. Come December everyone wants snow, and do you know how difficult it is to make snow? You see each snowflake has to be different from the last, so I’m up all night making billions and trillions of tiny white snowflakes. The annoying thing is they melt, so I end up having to make them all over again next year. If I had my way snowflakes would be make out of paper so I could just pick them all up afterwards and store them somewhere for next year. But I’m not allowed, it’s against Fairy rules. But if I don’t manage to make enough snowflakes to get to your house at Christmas do spare a thought for poor Gust. Why not make your own anyway to help me out?

I understand Pearl told you about the fairies problem. Like all fairies, I to have had to get a human job. Don’t get me wrong, I’m always very busy with my Sky Fairy jobs, but because people keep forgetting about us, I am working as a weather man on television. Because not everyone believes in fairies my powers are getting fainter so I’m not always sure what weather to paint in the sky. Once I made it rain frogs by mistake, in the middle of summer too! How embarrassing. So to make sure I don’t do anything stupid I work as a weather man, that way I know what the weather is supposed to be.

Thank you everyone who had sent Fairye-mail to us telling us that you do believe in us really. It means a lot to us.

I had better fly, I need to apologise to the rainbow. I may have called her ‘washed-out’ yesterday.

Fairy Luck and Charm,

 from Gust

Gust

P.S. I’ll tell the stars shine extra bright tonight, just for you.

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