Tinkering Tink (An Embossed Storybook)

by Elle D. Risco, Denise Shimabukuro (Illustrator), Dee Farnsworth (Foreword)

When Tinker Bell agrees to water Lily's flowers for a day, she discovers something about it's very, very boring. So tinkering Tink, ever the inventor, whips up a watering, shading, digging, planting, gardening machine and presents it to the astonished Lily. But alas, Lily explains to Tink that she likes watering, shading, digging, and planting by hand―just like Tink enjoys mending pots and pans and inventing things. Tink can't help but feel a little sad... will her amazing invention go to waste?



Gorgeous, rich embossing enhances this sweet story, sure to charm the pixie dust out of parents and little fairies fans alike.

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Fairies, Fantasy

28 pages, Hardcover

First published September 30, 2008

Reviews

[Judy · Rating 3 out of 5]

rating: 3.5

There's not much to the story and it's a little "too Disney" for me, but I do like the emphasis on gardening and the brief intro to garden responsibilities (but there's nothing about pulling weeds). Is it usual in Disney fairy stories for Tinker Bell to tinker? Here is an example of someone who sees a problem and comes up with a solution. Then, it needed to be 're-purposed.' Creativity at its finest.

[Makenzie Muñoz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great artwork! Fun story about Tink inventing a machine for one group, but it ended up being more needed with another group. I love reading any Disney fairy book ✨

[Kayleigh · Rating 4 out of 5]

The illustrations are so beautiful. Love the embossed effect

[Jess · Rating 2 out of 5]

Now, some of you may be looking at this 2 star rating and saying "Jess, that seems pretty harsh for an innocuous, if fairly soulless, children's book." Well, good thing teachers, librarians, and publishing professionals everywhere have come together to label this as a "young adult nonfiction" book, so I get to apply a stricter set of standards.

In fact, now when you log into my digital media catalog and select Teen Nonfiction, instead of seeing Charles and Emma or Phineas Gage, the first book you see is Tinkerbell's. Really screams YA, doesn't it? And why is this marked non-fiction, you ask? Because, at some point off-screen, Tinkerbell invents a whimsical wheelbarrow that also tills the soil, drops seeds, and waters the plants as you drag it. And this is enough to qualify as an engineering textbook.

So I've decided to reclassify some of my most popular teen "fiction" into the non-fiction sections they were obviously written to represent:

- The Hunger Games: 799.32 (Archery)
- Twilight: 907.00497 (Quileute Tribe Customs and History)
- Princess Diaries: 371.262 (Secondary School Admission Test, Study guides)
- Go Ask Alice: 362.292 (Alcoholism, treatment)
- Eragon: 823.912 (Tolkien Literary Criticism and interpretation)
- To Kill a Mockingbird: 347.73 (Pro se representation, United States)

PS - It should be noted that this is a perfectly serviceable picture book, but it was never going to get very far with me. I deeply dislike the Disney version of Tinkerbell, and much preferred her in Mary Martin's Peter Pan when she was represented by a flickering light and a bell.

[Shelli · Rating 4 out of 5]

An embossed Disney picture book. Tinkerbell volunteers to help her friend Lily take care of her garden while she away. Watering each flower one at a time does not make for a fun afternoon for the creative Tinkerbell. Crafy Tink invents a garden machine that can do it all, well and effectively. But will gardening loving Lily agree that she needs it for her garden?

[James Crawford · Rating 4 out of 5]

The basic story is that Tinker Bell makes a device for speeding up garden work, but it turns out to be used for something completely different. The unusual thing about this book is that the pages are embossed. This even includes part of the cover. Fairly cute book.