Chapter 1

ISADORA MOON Goes to the Fair

Chapter ONE It was Saturday morning and the sun was shining through our windows. It made me feel all happy and sparkly, and as though something interesting might be about to happen. 'I wonder what it will be,' I said to Pink Rabbit as we made our way down the stairs to breakfast.

Pink Rabbit bounced up and down beside me. He used to be my favourite stuffed toy but my mum magicked him alive with her wand. She can do things like that because she's a fairy! 'Good morning Isadora,' yawned Dad, who was just

coming in through the front door. He had been on his nightly fly. Dad is a vampire so he stays up all night and sleeps during the daytime. He stepped into the hallway and I noticed that he was standing on a colourful piece of paper lying by the doormat.

'What's that?' I said, pulling it out from under his shiny black shoe. 'Junk mail probably,' said Dad. But it didn't look like junk mail to me. As I smoothed out the crumples, I saw that the piece of paper was a big, glittering poster with a picture of a carousel in the middle of it. The carousel was covered with fairy lights and spinning under a starry sky. Delighted children sat on top of fancily dressed ponies, holding clouds of pink fluffy candyfloss in their hands. FUNFAIR SPECTACULAR! shouted the twirly pink writing above the carousel. NEXT WEEKEND ONLY!

'Oh wow, Dad!' I said. 'Can we go? Please?' 'Hmm,' said Dad, as I followed him into the kitchen. 'I'm not sure. Ask Mum.' Mum was at the kitchen table, spooning some strawberry yoghurt into my baby sister Honeyblossom's mouth.