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1* {{Adorkable}}: Rachel's dad, who's endearing in his attempts to be cool and likes flowers, animals, and other cute things. He's clumsy, too.
2* ArchivePanic: 20 years running and over 250 books. Good luck!
3* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: ''Return To Rainspell Island'' was a co-production with a Japanese studio, and ''it shows''.
4** Some of the books, such as Elisa the Royal Adventure Fairy's, have very detailed art.
5** The picture of the baby penguin in Pia the Penguin Fairy's book perfectly encapsulates its cuteness.
6** The fairy designs are very cute and easy to tell apart.
7* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The music for the "Create a Fairy" game on the website.
8* FirstInstallmentWins: The first series is considered the best, to the point that ''Return to Rainspell Island'' is a direct sequel to it and ignores almost everything that came after it.
9* HilariousInHindsight: Emily's power is creating visions from the future using a magic emerald. [[WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}} We don't talk about Emily]].
10* LGBTFanbase: The series literally has "Rainbow" in the name. It's no surprise that transgender people and lesbians would enjoy it.
11* LoveToHate: Jack Frost's CardCarryingVillain antics are incredibly entertaining. That and his occasional hamminess balance out his viciousness and nefarious cunning to make him a fun villain to root against.
12* PeripheryDemographic: A surprising amount of this series' fans are teenage and young adult women (and men, albeit to a lesser degree), a lot of whom grew up with the books.
13* RootingForTheEmpire: Given the heroes' generic personalities, some people read the series to see how close Jack Frost gets to winning before his plans are foiled.
14%%How? ZCE* SeasonalRot: The franchise is becoming too repetitive for its own good.
15* SurpriseDifficulty: Some of the games on the website are pretty hard. Case in point: Hide and Seek. Instead of simply clicking on the gems, you have to actually drag them to their spot on the cup. Failing to do so ends with the gem in question moving to another spot in the room. Also, Jack Frost shows up about every twenty seconds (sometimes even more often) and destroys all the progress you made, forcing you to start over. There is also a time limit, as well as fake gems. The third round has ''21 gems'' to find. Have fun.
16** Also the Fairy Race game. Sometimes the obstacles are so close together that maneuvering your fairy between them is impossible. Luckily, you have a total of 21 lives- 7 fairies with 3 lives apiece.
17* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: How some feel about Scholastic's name changes to some of the fairies. Many of the unique and foreign names get changed to bland and generic ones for no apparent reason.
18** Later series only have four fairies instead of seven. Luckily the Scholastic versions add 3 new fairies.
19* UnintentionallySympathetic: {{Downplayed|Example}}; in "Charlotte the Baby Princess Fairy", Jack Frost has a more reasonable motivation to get up to trickery than in most books; the goblin babies won't sleep, so he needs Charlotte's magic items to get them to sleep.
20* UnintentionalUncannyValley: The [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/rainbowmagic/images/b/b8/Tiana_1.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160906183658 original cover]] for Tiana the Toy Fairy's book had the Website/YouTube channel's avatar plastered on a fairy's body, which has huge, eerie eyes, while every other character has BlackBeadEyes. [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/rainbowmagic/images/1/1c/Tiana.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180725140806 Reprint covers]] redrew her with a normal fairy look and relegated the logo to the corner.
21* ValuesDissonance: A lot of the holiday books deal with traditions and such that are only familiar with kids from the UK. This is most likely why Scholastic doesn't publish some of them.
22* {{Woolseyism}}: A given when importing a UK series to America and Canada, where the English used has to be adapted to fit with American spelling and culture. For example, Paige, who is the [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/rainbowmagic/images/3/3e/Paige.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20181224140820 Pantomime Fairy]] in Britain, becomes the [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/rainbowmagic/images/6/6b/PaigeUS.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170221133504 Christmas Play Fairy]] in Copies released in America.

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