Disney Villains series—Book 4 Giving a voice to the dark fairy Maleficent, a story of misguided anger and unfounded prejudice is woven between the past and the present. While nearly every adult in her life went out of their way to encourage the bullying attitude of Maleficent’s peers, Nanny, the sister of Cinderella’s fairy godmother, took little Maleficent under her wing. No matter what the motherly fairy tried, though, the cruelty of the outside world always found its way to the child.