Once on the island Rachel and Kirsty decide to explore, a rainbow that they spotted from the ferry that seems to end not too far away and the two friends set off to see if there really is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. On the ferry Rachel meets Kirsty Tate, and the two quickly become friends. Rachel Walker was on her way to Rainspell Island to spend a week's holiday with her parents. Parents and readers, aged 7-10, will appreciate this long-running series of adventures, although they should temper it with more substantive reading. There are some illustrations, all in black line drawings, with a helpful map at the beginning. The story is rather unremarkable, it contains the requisite peril and mostly sets up the rest of the series, but it's a good length (65 pages), and the mythology is attractive to young girls interested in fairies. This is the first in the adventures of Kirsty and Rachel, friends and helpers of the fairies. Together they stumble upon the pot at the end of the rainbow, which holds something other than gold, it holds a fairy! The red rainbow fairy, named Ruby, takes them to the Fairyland Palace, where they meet the fairy King and Queen, and are charged with finding the other six fairies who have been cursed by the evil Jack Frost. Rachel is travelling with her family to Rainspell Island, when she meets Kirsty, a girl her own age who believes in magic.
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