Dinsmore, Danika
Danika Dinsmore
Danika Dinsmore has been working and playing with children in a variety of settings for almost twenty years. She has worked as an artist-in-the-schools for Learning Through the Arts and has taught writing courses at Vancouver Film School and Capilano University. Her awards include the Washington State Poets Association award for Performance Poetry and the “Best Fresh Voice” Screenwriting Award from the Female Eye Film Festival.
Brigitta is a young Water Faerie from the village-nest of Tiragarrow. She’s confused, moody, and anxious about going through “The Change” as she doesn’t see how destiny markings on her wings should determine her life’s path.
A few days before the annual Festival of the Elements, Brigitta is flying an errand with Himalette, her tag-a-long sister, when a mysterious curse turns everyone in the White Forest to stone—except for the two of them. The sisters have no idea why they were not cursed, but they do know if they don’t turn everyone back in time for the festival rituals, the Hourglass of Protection will run out and so will its protective field around the forest.
With no one in their forest left to help them, they must leave the protected realm to seek an exiled faerie they have only heard about in ancient tales. With assistance from a few allies they make along the journey, the girls find their way to Dead Mountain in search of the banished faerie. When they arrive, they find the help they are looking for, but soon discover that things are not what they seem. Running out of time, Brigitta and Himalette must use their wits to battle evil in order to lift the curse and save their forest.