Tink in a Fairy Fix

Tales of Pixie Hollow #22

by Kiki Thorpe

Tink's Fairy Fix is the 22nd book in our Disney Fairies chapter book series, which features Tinker Bell's adventures with her fairy friends in Never Land.
One day Tink helps Dooley with the sqeaky wheel on his mouse cart, and in the process, she fixes something else—Dooley! Turns out, Tink loves fixing fairies. And the more fairies she fixes, the more fairies she sees in need of her help. But there's one problem. Not all the fairies think they need fixing!

Genres: Fantasy, Childrens, Fairies, Middle Grade, Chapter Books

111 pages, Paperback

First published August 9, 2011

About the author

KIKI THORPE has written or adapted over fifty books for children. A former children's book editor, she now writes full time from San Francisco.

Reviews

[R.]

I feel like I would have gone through all of this as well if I were a pots-and-pans-talent fairy.

[amanda · Rating 2 out of 5]

read May 1, 2025 - May 1, 2025: 2 stars

[Coralie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love the cover of this one! The perfect green, plus my girl, Tink!

This addition to the Disney Fairies series shows some of Tink's growth, but also has such an intriguing concept. I think it's one of my favorite premises. Tink is known for her short fuse and quick temper. She's made several mistakes in several of the other stories as a result. But over the series we begin to see more of her compassion and what makes her such a good friend to the other fairies, even while maintaining her fiery personality.

In this book, we see her compassion like never before, but also how her easy irritation can work hand in hand with her incredible problem-solving skills (and she can still manage to be socially clueless sometimes!). I love how Tink accidentally ends up "fixing" fairies and how it all snowballs into a whole new world of tinkering for her to explore. I love her mixed feelings on it - how she's confused at first, then starts to get the hang of it, and then starts looking for opportunities. All to come full circle back to who she was made to be: a pots-and-pans talent who loves fixing things.

This one is a delightfully silly and fun little story with the potential to discuss some great things such as our talents and skills, communication and misunderstandings, our attitudes, and peer pressure, social expectations, etc. As well as a great story to foster discussions about our personalities, what makes us who we are, and what things we can/should change and what things we should accept and cultivate.

Definitely one of my favorites in the series!

[Faith Marshall · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book was cute, but it got off to a slow start (and if an adult thinks this, just imagine the short attention span of a kid). The message was that our flaws are part of who we are, which is a bit dangerous. "Flaws" can be talking in a squeaky voice or telling cheesy jokes, which some of the flaws in the book basically were. But flaws can also be gossiping or procrastinating--also which some of the flaws in the book basically were.

On the plus side, a few parts were funny, and the illustrations were great. But again, it had a slow start, and the message was a slippery slope.

[Avery · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tink learned a lesson in this book.

[Ember Air · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was a lot of fun! I loved the sneaky message about not being able to change your friends - and about keeping unfriendly observations to yourself.

[Sarah]

ok but trindle and rolo's problems were causing them legitimate distress

leave iris alone tink. I love iris she's a queen
did tink actually apologize to iris? or did she just run away and start working on an apology necklace? tink needs to learn to actually apologize

this one was hard to read sometimes because of the second-hand embarrassment. the whole herk think ahh
I was hoping to see Terence lol

[Marie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an interesting Tinker Bell story, when she ran out of things to fix she try's to fix fairies. When they are perfect faults and all. Tinker Bell was hilarious and this was a brilliant and fantastic tale. Very enjoyable.

[Christina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another entertaining story in this series for middle grade readers. Here Tink is encouraged to help “fix” fairies, but soon discovers they are much more complicated than her pots and pans. Nicely written with a good plot.

[Bash · Rating 5 out of 5]

A charming little story about how important people's flaws are to making them who they are :)

[Adriana Bosma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Is a great book, and easy to read.

[Lindsay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tink annoyed me in this book beyond how much she tried to change all of her friends. In the end it worked out though.

[Hannah Lang · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute! Good lesson about people’s imperfections making them uniquely them!

[presley green · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5

[Ali · Rating 5 out of 5]

One day Tink was fixing Dooly's squeaky wheel. When she got back to her workshop she heard a knock on her door, when she opened her door she found Rosetta and she wanted her to fix Hem, a strong fairy.
She said she would try.
Then their came some more knocks on her door. When more fairies needed her help to fix them Tink started to like fixing fairies, so she started fixing fairies, even if they didn't want to get fixed.

I like these series a lot. These books in my opinion are the best books in the universe that I've ever heard of!

[Children's Literature Project · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tink is having trouble fixing things and decides to fix her friends instead. The usual Tinkerbell chaos ensues! The Lexile Measure is 690L and grade level 4. The story is fun and can be used to teach the children a lesson about accepting the imperfections in those we love.

[Caelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was a light, fluffy read intended for kids below 10. The plot was a little weak, but it was interesting and children who love the Disney fairies series probably won't be disappointed.

[Jaime · Rating 4 out of 5]

My daughter loves all the disney faerie books!

[L Huber · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute story about "fixing" people and how the idea of imperfections being part of what makes people special.

[Celestial · Rating 4 out of 5]

These are great little girl books. I read them years ago, but could probably still enjoy them.

[Kaytee · Rating 5 out of 5]

tink in a fairy fix book was amazing because she was being nice to people and that is not her talent so then she changes her ways m this story was good