Desperate to avoid this, Lina and her friend Claudia, who is black, get Lina accepted at the Hilltop Science and Arts Academy. This prompts her stern grandfather to ask that Lina move in with him so he can teach her to control her powers. While making a grand entrance at the castle of her grandfather, the North Wind, she fails to successfully ride a gust of wind and crashes in front of her entire family.
Lina herself is mixed race, with black hair and a tan complexion like her Asian-presenting mother’s her Groundling father appears to be a white human. This is not a typical gathering, since Lina’s maternal relatives are a royal family of Windtamers who have power over the weather and live in castles floating on clouds. Ice princess Lina must navigate family and school in this early chapter read. Fans of Ada Twist, Scientist, by Andrea Beaty and illustrated by David Roberts (2016), and Charlotte the Scientist Is Squished, by Camille Andros and illustrated by Brianne Farley (2017), will enjoy Esther’s tale. Throughout the book, actual scientific principles are introduced to young readers in a way that’s both holistic and fun, and the backmatter includes a seed-germination experiment. The colorful digital illustrations offer whimsical details as purple-pigtailed, brown-skinned Esther and a bird sidekick work to promote science. Of course Esther has a home library of books and materials to put them on the road to becoming good scientists. After discovering that the young tree merely needs sunlight, her friends are now inspired to ask questions.
When a tree begins to wilt, the young fairies all try their best wizardry to bring the sapling back to life, but Esther deduces the harm done to the tree through an experiment based on the scientific method. Esther, who wholeheartedly believes in fact over fiction, is convinced fairy dust is dandruff, foggy omens are just condensation, and that gravity is in fact the law.
A precocious fairy promotes the fundamentals of science in this picture book that informs as well as it entertains.Įsther is a long-suffering fairy skeptic stuck in a world where everyone around her believes in the power of magic.
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