Fantasy artist Jasmine Becket-Griffith teamed up with Ashton-Drake Galleries to release her first fairy doll collection, "Mystical Flora Fairies". "Regine the Rose Flower" leads the launch, with several additional fairies to follow.

"You've been asking me for over a decade for dolls, so now here you go! These are beautiful collectible & POSEABLE fairy dolls! I m so very thrilled to show these to you all!" Ms. Becket-Griffith said in her newsletter.

The 13 Treasures by debut author Michelle Harrison manged to beat out numerous other stories and secure the 2009 Waterstone's Children's Book Prize with its accompanying £5,000 award.

Image © Waterstone's Booksellers Limited

Disney now ranks among the top three online gaming destinations, according to a recent analysis by Comscore. Over thirteen million visitors dropped by their sites in December 2008, a 13% increase from last year.

A Disney representative said that the traffic increase was "largely driven by our virtual worlds, and specifically by the popularity of the new Disney Fairies Pixie hollow virtual world." A recent barrage of Disney Fairy products, from the new movie to video games to figurines, has probably helped catapult their popularity.

Disney's version of Tinker Bell has been around for over 50 years, ever since the release of Peter Pan in 1953. However, it seems like just recently a Tinker Bell craze erupted, plastering her face all over video games, movies, figurines, and countless other products, as a walk through any department store reveals.

Fantasy artist Jasmine Becket-Griffith, known for her big-eyed style of painting, recently teamed up with Disney and The Hamilton Collection to create a line of figurines featuring Disney characters, including Tinker Bell.

Jasmine's renditions of Tinker Bell emphasize the fairy's feisty disposition, as titles such as "Kiss My Wings" and "All Eyes on Me" suggest. Tinker Bell raises her eyebrows, crosses her arms, and smirks in the different poses displayed on Jasmine's website.

A few days ago, a consumer advocate group claimed that the stocking fairy does not exist; rather, dryer manufacturers invented the fairy as a way to explain why socks often go missing in the dryer, without admitting any fault on the dryer's part.

Toothena the Tooth Fairy, also known as CoraMarie Clark, a former dental hygienist and current dental consultant, among her human counterparts, is spreading the word about healthy teeth. Dressed as fairy, she is visiting book stores to sign her self-published book, Emily's Magical Journey with Toothena the Tooth Fairy. Toothena also makes rounds at schools and orphanages, handing out toothbrushes to children.

When two high school misfits, Darby and Lucy, begin to see pixies dancing, they disregard it as their imagination. Then, Darby, as she grows taller and thinner, learns that the developing lumps on her back are the beginning of fairy wings: she is a fairy, not a human!

AmyBrownArt.com, the official website of renowned fantasy artist Amy Brown, released a newsletter this week with promises for a magical new year.

In addition to the extensive line of products featuring Amy's work, the website announced plans to begin selling journals, clothing, coffee mugs, and tote bags this spring. Fans will be excited to hear that in light of ongoing economic woes, the site extended its sale on art prints.

The website itself will undergo several updates, including a new free screensaver and a new site journal for Amy.

A survey commissioned by Denplan suggests children in the UK will receive up to ten percent less reward money for their teeth, as the credit crunch forces even the tooth fairy to tighten her purse strings.

"The Tooth Fairy is an age-old tradition that aims to reward children for taking good care of their milk teeth," Denplan managing director Steve Gates said, adding that he hopes that the tooth fairy will offer alternative incentives for children to care for their teeth.

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