Zoë the fairy is back in her third picture-book adventure, this time attending the birthday celebration of the Fairy Queen with her good friend Pip. When the Queen grows too enthusiastic in her trampoline jumping, her special birthday crown goes flying, and cannot be found. Zoë marshals the fairies in a search, until they eventually discover the crown being used in a most unusual way...

As with its predecessors, I found the story in Zoë and the Fairy Crown somewhat slight, with very little depth. When Zoë and Pip present their presents, for instance, the narrative tells us the Queen was delighted with them, but we never discover what they actually were. The story runs along this way, with everything on the surface, and very little sense of their being anything underneath. The artwork is cute, although not really to my taste. I find that my interest in these books is waning, as I proceed further in the series, so I am grateful that the next installment—Zoë and the Witches' Spell—is my primary reason for reading them in the first place.

I'm not sure I'd really recommend this one, save to those readers who greatly enjoyed the previous two books about this character, and to picture book-readers looking for sweet stories about fairies and other magical creatures. ( )