"The Trouble with Tink"

"The Trouble with Tink" is a chapter book about the Disney fairy Tinker Bell. Tink is a pots-and-pans fairy whose talent is fixing broken and bent metal objects. One day while playing tag, Tink loses her special hammer that she uses to fix the pots and pans. She cannot fix anything right without it and her spare is in Peter Pan's hideout. Tink has not talked to Peter since he brought Wendy to Never Land. She is afraid to go and talk to him. Whatever is Tink going to do?

I really enjoyed reading this book because it was about a Disney character that I know and love. It was very interesting to read how the fairies live and work in Never Land. Each fairy has a special talent that places them into a specific group. Tinker Bell is a part of the pots-and-pans fairies. There are dust-talent fairies who measure and hand out fairy dust, fast-flying-talent fairies, water-talent fairies, animal-talent fairies, and light-talent fairies. Even though the fairies have different, unique talents, they all work together to ensure the livlihood of the fairies of Never Land.

The only thing that I did not really like about this story was that the fairies special talents seemed to make the fairies. When Tink lost her hammer and she was not able to fix pots and pans perfectly anymore, the other fairies gossipped that she had lost her talent and that the queen was going to banish her from Never Land. Tink used to be known as the best pots-and-pans fairy in the land and then people started treating her completely different after the hammer incident. I think that's sending a bad message to children, that what they do makes them who they are. The gosssip even began to effect Tink herself. She was fierce, courageous, and confident before she lost her hammer and after, she was the complete opposite. Tink was too afraid to go to Peter's hideout and confront him by herself. Her friend Terance was the extra boost Tink needed to confront Peter and get her spare hammer back. This book was very entertaining to read.