Lizzie’s Way Home with the Three Magic Fairies by Adaline Turmaud

flower and fairies, by Annette Hashitate in Issue 10: An Ekphrasis Adventure

Issue 10: An Ekphrasis Adventure is an appreciation of artwork and the poetry and stories a work of art can inspire. We're excited to feature stories and poetry by young writers who submitted their work for this theme.

Thank you to Adaline Turmaud for sharing her story, "Lizzie’s Way Home with the Three Magic Fairies," which was inspired by the illustration, flower and fairies by Annette Hshitate.

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One day, six-year-old Lizzie goes on a walk in the forest to pick berries with her parents and ten-year-old sister Rosie. As she is picking berries, her family walks ahead without Lizzie knowing. Lizzie looks up to see her family is gone! Lizzie has never been lost in her whole entire life (that she can remember)!

Lizzie walks into the forest and looks around for her family. Then all the sudden, she sees her three fairy friends Alina, Cherryma, and Candle! Alina sees that Lizzie is sad because she can’t find her family and tells her, “I have to solve problems like this all the time. I can help you solve your problem of being lost!” Alina pulls out her wand and spins it in circles. This teleports all of them to the Creative Map Maker.

The Creative Map Maker is a place where fairies work to make maps that can help kids who get lost in the forest. On the wall, they see pictures of all the kids in the world. The fairies make a map for each child in case they get lost and put a check mark by their picture when the map is ready for their fairy friends to give to them (like Lizzie’s fairy friends are doing for her).

Alina sees her friend Sarah and asks her to help them find the map that was made for Lizzie. They all go together and look in the big basket of maps that the fairies have made. The maps are all in different colors and have the children’s names on the top of them. As they are looking in the basket, Candle finds Lizzie’s map! On Lizzie’s map they find the secret code they need to teleport Lizzie home. The code is 9229—the number of Lizzie’s house.

With their wands, Alina, Cherryma, and Candle write 9229 in the air. WHOOSH! They are all teleported to Lizzie’s house! When she gets there, Lizzie hugs her parents, her sister, and her dog very tightly! Lizzie feels excited and happy to be home with her family. Lizzie says bye to her fairy friends and says, “Thank you and I hope I’ll see you soon!” Lizzie then goes inside with her family where they all cuddle, read books, and drink warm hot cocoa together.

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Adaline Turmaud is 6 years old. Adaline is French-American. Adaline likes camping, traveling, dance (hip hop in particular! She does hip hop competitions!), drawing, and sparkles. Her favorite colors are pink, purple, green, red, yellow, aqua, and white.

Our Ekphrasis Adventure issue is about using visual art as inspiration for poetry and storytelling.

Can you tell us about what stood out to you in the illustration you chose to write about? What in the image sparked the idea for your story?

This story stood out to me because I like fairies! I thought of the story because the girl is in a forest and with the look on her face she looks lost. 

Do you have a favorite artist, or a picture book, comic, or graphic novel that you love and want to shout out?

My favorite picture books are High Five by Adam Rubin and The Book that Can Read Your Mind by Marianna Coppo! My favorite singing artists are Sia and Ava Max. 

What is your favorite topic to study in school?

Monarch Butterflies

What is the most interesting thing you recently learned?

That the cocoon of a Monarch Butterfly is called a chrysalis. 

What book are you currently reading or read most recently? Would you recommend this book to other readers?

I just finished reading Mini Mermaid Tales: The Dolphin Dream by Debbie Dadey. Yes! Other kids should read it!