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Another hilarious adventure with Danny Todd and his fairy S.Tink. This time we follow Danny as he starts secondary school and finds that S.Tink has returned. Mischief and mayhem ensue involving miniature foxes (horses 😉), an all powerful wizard and a school play.
Perfect for ages 7 and above, sure to have even the most reluctant readers hooked with fun illustrations and easy to read text. This works well as a standalone book with a brief summary of the events from book one.

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My children enjoyed listening to Stink: Fairy vs Wizard, the second in this laugh out loud series.. They found the story to be funny, adventurous, and full of magic. The narrator used lots of expression and brought the story about the world's funniest fairy to life for them. Danny has a role in the school play as a powerful wizard, and Stink tries to help him by bringing out her best friend from school. This leads to unexpected consequences which causes drama and destruction!

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Thank you net gallery for the chance to listen to this story.

This story was really funny to listen to, makes you smile. the narrator was clear and easy to understand. Really quick enjoyable listen.

children aged 7 upwards will enjoy this.

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Thank you to Netgalley, the writer and publisher for a free audiobook of these novel in exchange for a review.
My 9 year old daughter came home with a paper copy of this book from the school book wagon visit and when I saw that it was available as an audiobook we decided to listen to it as well. I’ve found that her listening and reading along at the same time really improves her reading – and it works best with books that are illustrated.
She loved this book and to be honest it often had me laughing out loud along with her. We’d already listened to the first one in the series, so we knew all about S.Tink aka Stink the slightly rubbish fairy, who appeared to Danny after his younger sister gave him a fairy door for his birthday. So we were both engaged in hearing more about Stink and Danny.
After the disaster of the first story, Danny is keen to get rid of Stink as he’s starting secondary school but he agrees to help her again to ensure she’ll go back to fairyland. If she gets her ‘nuggets’ she can get a super-duper new wand that will solve all her problems. So, she must do a good deed for a human in ‘humany’ world and that is where the trouble starts.
This is an amusing, fun book perfect for 7+ children, who’ll like all the silly aspects of foxes shrinking and a wand that doesn’t work quite as well as it could, a wizard that is considered wicked but really hasn’t done anything that bad and the FBI – the Fairy Bureau of Investigation are out to get him. My daughter loved it and gave it five stars!
It’s well read by the narrator, who does all kinds of crazy voices – although why Kabir has a Scottish accent is never really explained! We listened to it in the car, before bed and whenever we could – love having the opportunity to listen to a book with her– and that all the voices aren’t on me! She’s a bit annoyed there isn’t a third one in the series yet, so we’ll have to look out for that when it comes.
Totally recommended.

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Review by my 7 year old son.
This story was sooooo good! I didn't want it to stop each night. It made me feel happy, and I found it easy to understand. The narrator in the audio book sounded nice and spoke clearly and slow enough for me to understand.

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My daughter and I really enjoyed the first book in this series when we listened to it on audiobook so we were eager to crack on with the next installment.

My daughter )
(Aged 11) said “I thought it was really, really funny and had joked that I giggled at. It had a good storyline and when Danny was in trouble, I felt quite worried. All the story ideas were really creative and well - thought out. I would recommend this to any of my friends who like books that make them laugh.”

We both thought the narrator did a fantastic job delivering the jokes and keeping us engaged throughout.

4.5 stars, rounded up to 5. Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for the chance to review an advanced copy of the book.

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🎧Audio Book Review🎧

Stink : Fairy vs Wizard
Jenny McLachlan

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I recently read Dead Good Detectives by this author and really enjoyed both the storyline and the style of writing, so was excited to grab the chance at reading something a bit different by McLachlan and again, I loved it!

I believe that this is actually a book 2 featuring Stink the fairy, but it really didn't feel as though I'd missed out on anything important and so assume that these would be great standalone reads too!

In this story, Stink the fairy is in need of a new wand and needs her best friend Danny to help her do a good deed to earn her reward.
Danny is taking the wizard role in the form play at school and needs some help to be the best - and Stink, thinking that this could be her good deed, brings an evil wizard through the fairy door - but things definitely dont go to plan!

The relationship between Danny and Stink was brilliant. Although obviously trying their best to help each other out, they weren't the best at accomplishing tasks. There were some hilarious moments as they try to navigate school and home life and also try to keep the wizard out of trouble too.

I loved that Danny grew through the story. He started off not being the most popular kid at school and we can all definitely relate to that!
So I really think this would be great for the target audience to get behind Danny and root for him to get through the chaos.

The chapters were short and concise and this makes this the perfect book for confident readers to pick up and put down in short periods - before teatime, bedtime or over the weekends - but also a great school library book too.

The storyline is fun, funny and engaging, with lots going on to hold your attention throughout.
I'm also pretty sure, from the look of the cover, that there would be some amazing and fun illustrations within the book too - which would also appeal if this was being read aloud to the younger age group.

As an audiobook this would be brilliant to have on for the school run or even on a longer journey - at only 2.5 hours long - this would make a great distraction.

Really enjoyed this and will try and catch up with Stink and Danny in book one soon and look out for future adventures too.




💕Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for my ARC copy - this is my honest review 💕

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This is a fun, quite easy, middle-grade book with lots of interest. It's easily relatable to children from different backgrounds and cultures and mixes the magical world in with reality.

Danny has the lead role in the school assembly play, but he just can't hack it! Can Stink help him or will she just make things worse? She needs to help.out if she wants new wings or a new wand....

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