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Flattered at first that all the other fairies and sparrow men want her to paint their portraits, Bess soon begins to feel overwhelmed and tries to find a way to return to the kind of painting she really wants to do.

Lily has a talent for making things grow. So when she finds a mysterious seed during a walk in the forest, she plants it right away. The ugly seedling that comes up is a surprise, but Lily treasures all plants and has an extra-special feeling about this one. It dosn't matter to her that it's really ugly ... and that it smells bad ... and that it makes everyone in Pixie Hollow sneeze! But it matters to all the other fairies. They don't like the mysterious...

Beck, a fairy, has a talent for talking to animals, but that may not be enough when she tries to mediate a war between the hummingbirds and the chipmunks.

After lying to spare a friend's feelings, Prilla, a mainland-visiting, clapping-talent fairy, finds herself spending a day as a butterfly herder, while strange things keep happening to her.

Dulcie the fairy, who likes to work hard as head baker for Queen Clarion, reluctantly takes a vacation.

Exhausted at the end of her busiest time of year, Fira, a light-talent fairy, must cope with an illness among the fireflies and train three rambunctious new fairies so that other Never Land fairies can do their work.

Fairies Beck, Prilla, and Lily investigate the disappearance of Queen Clarion, the ruler of Pixie Hollow.

As a sharp-eyed fairy scout in Pixie Hollow, Myka protects the other fairies from dangers, but after her eyesight begins to worsen, she uses her other senses to convince everyone that she still can see and do her job.