UK English Version

My daughter loves the Rainbow Magic series and she couldn’t wait to read about the bunny fairy, as she is bunny crazy. The series is cute, fairly easy read (guided reading level L-M, approximately grade 2). This particular set isn’t widely available. Just be aware that this set is the UK version. It is published by Orchard Books which I believe is associated with Scholastic Books. The particular set (new) I received was printed in 2006. The books are in English, but uses words like mum instead of mom, neighbor is spelled neighbour, and so on. These differences stumped my daughter who is an emerging reader. The other things that makes them a little harder to read are terms like candy floss (cotton candy). These make the books a little harder to understand/read, but we just used the differences as a learning opportunity to showcase differences in words and spellings in the USA verses the UK. These are better read together because of those differences. It helps to keep your smartphone nearby too to do a quick google search. I wouldn’t let them being a UK import keep me from buying them. Scholastic doesn’t currently print these, and finding a new copy is not easy. I know first hand as I had to replace one the dog got ahold of and chewed.

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