On Monday we started our class novel. The book is called, First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts. This novel was written by Lari Don. Lari Don was born in Chile but moved to Scotland and went to school in Aberlour. She then went on to study at Glasgow Univeristy and now lives in Edinburgh.

We started reading this novel as a whole class a few months ago. Now we each have our own copy and it is now our Primary 5 Novel Study. First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts is a fiction text (we hope!) and is set in Scotland. The main character is called Helen. Helen encounters a whole other world and is drawn into it to help a team of fabled beasts in need.

So far, the whole class have been really enjoying this novel. It actually won the Royal Mail Award in 2009, a year after it was published.

We will be reading this in class and taking it home to read chapters in our own time too. We will be doing lots of follow up work on what the book is about .

So far, one of my favourite characters (Abi) is called Rona. She is a selkie (a seal when in water and a human on land). She is my favourite because she loves to sing and I think we have a lot in common (except perhaps for the seal part!).

Once we have finished this novel, we will hopefully move straight on to Lari’s next book, called Wolf Notes. This will keep us up to date with what Helen and all of her magical friends are up to.

Abi and Daniel