Fairy Dreams by Gwyneth Rees

Author:Gwyneth Rees [Rees, Gwyneth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9780330470773
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books

Evie got a bit of a shock when she read the last sentence. If Grandma’s old bed lost its magic, then Evie wouldn’t be able to see Star and Moonbeam again. But if this was the only way Grandma could get to fairyland, she knew she had no choice.

Evie studied the letter for a long time. She would somehow have to get all the people mentioned by Queen Celeste to stand around Grandma’s hospital bed together – if she could find them. Harry thought he had made Grandma’s brass bed – but she would have to find out for sure. And Grandma and herself were two of the people who had activated the bed – but who was the third?

‘Mum, did any other children ever come and stay here with Grandma?’ Evie asked after she had gone back inside the house. She guessed that the third person had probably been a child rather than a grownup, since children tended to believe in fairies more than adults did.

Mum was in the kitchen making cocoa. She didn’t usually drink cocoa, but she said that staying in the house where she’d spent her childhood was reminding her of all the things she had loved when she was younger. And cocoa was one of them. ‘Why?’

‘No reason. I was just wondering.’

‘One of my cousins came over from Canada once, with her children, but I think they stayed in a hotel.’

‘Could any of them have gone upstairs for a nap on Grandma’s bed while they were here, do you think?’ Evie asked, remembering Harry’s story about how his magic bed had been activated.

‘Why do you want to know that?’

‘It’s just . . . just . . .’ Suddenly she had an idea. ‘It’s just a survey I’m helping Mr Watson with. He thinks Grandma’s brass bed is one of the ones he made, you see, and he wants to know how many different people have slept in it.’

Mum almost laughed. ‘Why on earth does he want to know that?’

‘I told you. Because he’s doing a survey.’ Evie knew that people did surveys to find out all sorts of daft things. Her mum had got one in the post last month asking her which shops she visited each week and which types of breakfast cereal she had eaten over the last five years – how silly was that? So why shouldn’t Harry be doing a survey about who had slept in his beds?

‘Well, all I know about that bed is that it was handmade locally a few years before I was born. I should think Grandma and Grandad are the only people who’ve slept in it.’

‘And me,’ Evie pointed out. ‘And you. And someone else might have slept in it too, when they came to stay.’

‘I don’t think Grandma would invite someone who wasn’t family to sleep in her bed, Evie. That’s why she had the spare room.’

Evie frowned. Her mum had a point.

‘By the way,’ Mum said, ‘I’ve been meaning to ask you – how

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