The franchise is built around the character of Tinker Bell from Disney's 1953 animated film Peter Pan, subsequently adopted as a mascot for the company.

Aside from Tinker Bell, Fawn, Iridessa, Queen Clarion, Rosetta, Silvermist, Sweetpea, Terence, and Vidia are the only fairies from the books to appear in the films.

Some of Tink's book-only best friends also may appear in a crossover special with the Fairies in the movies and with other shows: Others include: There is a set of key Never Mermaids: Disney Publishing Worldwide transferred the Disney Fairies franchise's main publishing license to Little, Brown Books for Young Readers in January 2014 except for the Never Girls series starting in February.

Brown planned to introduce a new character, Croc, in the board book to allow the line to appeal to younger readers, including some boys.

The island's only hope is for some brave fairies to take the egg pieces to Kyto the dragon and ask him to restore it with his fiery breath.

In the Year of a Million Dreams celebration, book stores released a form submitting a fairy character.

[citation needed] Random House has published a series of chapter books starting soon after the release of the first novel[3] under the banner Tales of Pixie Hollow.

In January 2013, PDW launched Never Girls chapter book series extension of the Disney Fairies franchise under publishing partner Random House's Stepping Stone imprint.

[6] Fairies Magazine has been launched in: Italy, Malaysia, Singapore, Poland, Russia, Spain, the Nordic countries, Portugal, Germany and Benelux.

[7] In May 2009, Papercutz publishing pickup a license to produce original graphic novels to hit the stands in April 2010 at the rate of four per year.

[8] The 2007 manga and 2008 graphic novel "Disney Fairies: Petite's Little Diary", published by Kodansha and distributed by Tokyopop, follows the misadventures of Tinker Bell and her friends.

One opened at Disneyland near the Matterhorn Bobsleds in the area where Ariel's Grotto was formerly located and the other at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom in Mickey's Toontown.

At these Pixie Hollow locations, guests have the opportunity to meet and greet Tinker Bell and her fairy friends Silvermist, Rosetta, Iridessa, Fawn, Terence and Vidia and her twin sister Periwinkle, from the franchise, as well as dine with them.

Free members could create a female Fairy or male Sparrow Man avatar who each came with a small selection of furnishings to decorate a virtual room.

Players could also play games and visit places to earn badges that they could see in their "leaf journal," which also served as a handbook and inventory.

[19] In January 2012, "Pixie Diamonds" were introduced, an in-game currency that could be purchased with real-world money and used to buy or upgrade items without an active membership.

[21] To date, two of the characters from the Disney Fairies franchise have appeared in ABC's fantasy drama series Once Upon a Time.