Florrie the Dummy Fairy
£7.60
Recommended as an effective and fun way of weaning children off their beloved dummies.
Florrie transforms Elliott’s dummy into his very own twinkling star, a comforting and nightly reminder of an innocence that might otherwise be forgotten.
‘Magical and wonderful book. My child loves the story and was so excited about Florrie visiting and turning her dummy into a star! Highly recommended.’
‘Lovely story with beautiful pictures. My toddler loves it….’
‘What a wonderful story! Thanks to Florrie the dummy fairy, my three year old gave his dummy up that very night (after loads of previous attempts). A massive hit in our house!’
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Additional information
| Publisher | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (9 Aug. 2014) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 24 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 9781500775698 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1500775698 |
| Reading age | 2 – 3 years, from customers |
| Dimensions | 21.59 x 0.15 x 21.59 cm |
by Sandy
The basis of this story is great: the fairy dummy takes the dummy and makes it in to a star, albeit, offering a present in return. I think this book is aimed at older children than I was expecting as the boy in the story looks school age. This created a slight problem in the preamble I’ve been having with my 2 year old daughter as I’ve been telling her that she’s getting too old for a dummy and am planning that by the time she’s 2 and a half we’ll be on our way to ditching it. The boy in the story is in a “big bed” so my daughter was a bit confused about why he had a dummy at all as I’d been prepping her that she’s getting too big for a dummy.There are some good things about this book but a lots of things I don’t like about this book, some of them practical, some of them personal (and arguably subjective).
The things I liked:
1. I really liked the way there was repetitive catchphrases that children could pick up
2. The dummy gets turned in to a star (kaboom! Great idea, after one reading, my toddler pointed to stars and said ‘dummy’)
The practical issues
1. The font is difficult to read and is quite small (it’s in Footlight MT rather than something that’s easier to read, like Arial or Helvetica)
2. On some pages the font is black on a coloured background and is difficult to read (with a bedside lamp on or in a tent with a torch).
The personal issues
1. I didn’t like the poems at all. They might have been better for older children but I found them a bit tedious and found I had to skip them or paraphrase as my toddler lost interest, about 20 seconds before me
2. Once everything else had started to annoy me, the illustrations did as well. I mean, it’s not that hard to maintain continuity in a book, so the fact that there are errors irritated my already frazzled nerves (Elliott goes to bed with socks on but then there aren’t any socks on; he goes to sleep under the blue duvet, then his bare feet are sticking out of the bottom of the green and yellow rug. Why? Why? Why? Are you trying to tip me in to insanity?!!)
3. I think this book is trying to please everyone by covering a number of bases but this ends up making it feel a bit unnatural.
As a temporary fix I’m going to print out the text again, summarising it in simpler language. The long-term fix is to write my own.
by Francesca Verdusco
I’m not sure if this book legitimately deserves five stars, but it planted the seed for my daughter and she now has no interest in dummies, so can’t not give it five stars.
I read this book to my then 25 month old only about five times over the course of a few months. There is definitely too much unnecessary text, but you can cut a lot out, rephrase easily enough. I do that with a lot of her books!
Anyway she randomly asked me one day when the dummy fairy was coming so I jumped on it and said ‘Tomorrow!’ We then created this whole scene where we wrapped up her dummies and put them into the ‘fairy tree’ before her nap, then when she woke up the dummies were replaced with new shoes and chocolate. That first night was pretty painful, took her longer to fall asleep and with more tears, but after that it’s been plain sailing! Was really worried as her baby sister was still using dummies at the time, but she seemed to understand that dummies are for babies.
Anyway this book certainly planted the seed for which I am grateful! Worth a purchase, or better yet a second hand one. It’s not exactly a good book and the pictures are a bit outdated but it did the trick.
Needless to say, we soon ditched the dummies for our baby as don’t want to have to go through all this a second time! Good luck to all.
by Han
Really lovely, my dummy obsessed 3 year old was preparing for the dunny fairy to visit her so a few weeks before hand this was our bedtime read, when the Dummy Fairy eventually came to our amazement she took to it like a duck to water and never looked back, we couldn’t believe it, she never asked for it at all at night, in the day or of she was upset, so would highly reccomend this
by Hannah C L
I highly recommend this book to any parent wishing to face the battle of taking a dummy away from a child. My 2 1/2 year old daughter was so attached to her dummy that I thought it would be a nightmare, but it wasn’t thanks to this book. It’s a lovely story and my daughter enjoyed reading it. After a few nights she put her dummy under her pillow without hesitation ready for the dummy fairy and was extremely happy with her present in the morning. She still tells people now 6 months on that her dummy is a star in the sky! Love love love this book :0)
by Pink-commuter
My son enjoyed the story and we’ve read it a number of times since purchase. Did it enthuse him to give up the dummy? Not really but he was keen to get a red sorts car :). We quickly started skipping the little songs as he didn’t have the patience for them. A good book to start the dummy discussion tho….
by Amazon Customer
This book is brilliant. My 3 and a half year old has had her dummy since she was 7 weeks old and so I was dreading getting rid of it. I told her about the dummy fairy before receiving the book so she was prepared. Read it to her for the 1st time last night and she wanted to leave it for the fairy. Had lots of tears just before settling when the reality sunk in but focused on her dummy becoming a star and the present from the fairy in the morning. Not once asked for dummy during the day and only a few tears tonight so has worked really well. Would highly recommend this book. Caroline.
by marina
I liked the idea of having a story book help get my girl ready for not having a dummy anymore. I’m not sure I liked the story plot and the flow of the story wasn’t quite as good as I was hoping for. It starts off a bit oddly, then changes plot abruptly. It’s ok though. Just makes for difficult reading from an adult’s perspective especially since we’ve been reading it over and over. Hopefully it gets the job done with minimal drama when the time comes. My little girl seems to like Florrie so fingers crossed.
by Mrs_C
Nice book for my three year old, although it didn’t help us to get rid of her dummy. She’s adamant the fairy isn’t coming to our house!