My mum adored these books when she was a kid, and I'm rereading them now. Honestly they're a wee bit twee for my tastes, but when Acres gets off the flower fairies and gets onto describing (and illustrating) the denizens of the New Zealand bush then I am far more entertained. And honestly, I think she is too, because as the series goes on, the focus gets further and further away from Hutu and Kawa and their pixie friends, and instead looks more closely at birds. I am all for this, so it's no surprise that my individual ratings ended up as two stars for book one, and three stars for the following two volumes. As always, the collected rating is an average of the individual ratings.