Not because she's going to be working with butterflies, but simply because she loves them. Prilla tells Nettle that she can't help with caterpillar shearing because she loves butterflies. Her lie is found out, she discovers that she hates butterflies, and she learns a valuable lesson about lying. The lie gets her out of caterpillar-shearing, but it backfires when all the butterfly-herding fairies get sick and Prilla is drafted. To avoid hurting Nettle's feelings, Prilla lies and says she can't shear caterpillars because she loves butterflies. Prilla hates caterpillars she would much rather visit the mainland and appear to children. Her friend Nettle asks her to help shear caterpillars. Prilla is a fairy with a problem: she's a doormat. The illustrations are saccharine and oh-so-Disneyesque, but that's hard to avoid when the franchise is Disney Fairies. Prilla and the Butterfly Lie is vapid but harmless. My daughters love the Disney Fairy books, so as a responsible parent I had to read one to judge its content. Disney is peddling dolls, toys, books, a magazine, straight-to-DVD movies, and a Disneyworld attraction. The Never fairies live in Pixie Hollow in the heart of Neverland. Disney Fairies is a new franchise, barely three years old, cooked up by Disney Consumer Products (DCP) and based on the Tinker Bell character from Peter Pan. If you thought Tinker Bell was the only Never fairy in Neverland, you may be forgiven.
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