Fira and the Full Moon »

Gail Herman has written many books for children including easy-to-reads such as Flower Girl, Otto the Cat, What a Hungry Puppy, and Step into Reading's own, The Lion and the Mouse and There Is a Town. The author lives in Newton, Mass..
Judith Holmes Clarke has provided artwork for children's books based on Mulan and Monsters, Inc., in addition to several non-Disney picture books.

Fira is a take-charge light-talent fairy, who never asks for help. So when all the fireflies come down with the firefly flu, who organizes light for Pixie Hollow? Fira. When three new light-talent fairies arrive on the same day, who volunteers to look after them? Fira. And when the mining-talent fairies set off on their monthly expedition into the underground caves, who lights the way? Fira, of course. But she's exhausted, and the deeper the miners go, the more her glow flickers and fades. Fira's full moon may turn out to be her darkest hour!

Children's Literature

Fira is a light-talent fairy. It is her job to make sure that Pixie Hollow is well lit in the evenings, to provide light for celebrations, and to make sure that the mining-talent fairies have light on their monthly visits to the mines. Normally, this is no problem for a tireless fairy like Fira. She is in charge of the other light-talents and delegates most of the tasks well. Her energy is put to the test when the fireflies that help Fira with the lighting around Pixie Hollow come down with the flu and she and the other light-talent fairies are left short handed and exhausted from all the extra work. Fira thinks her problems are solved with the arrival of three new light-talent fairies, but she soon discovers that they are not the answer to her wishes. In fact, they are more work to keep track of than they are a help. Fira is frustrated and tired but her job must go on. She decides to take the miners down to the mines by herself but soon finds herself and the miners in trouble. Just as she is about to lose the last of her glow and her hope of finding the way out of the mine, the new fairies who were once nothing but trouble come to the rescue. This lighthearted chapter book is part of the "Disney Fairies" series.