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Summary
Summary
A loose tooth leads to hilarious hijinks with the tooth fairy in book four of the wonderfully imaginative Dory Fantasmagory series
Dory has her first loose tooth, and, with her usual over-the-top excitement, she cannot stop talking about the tooth fairy. Naturally, this drives her brother and sister crazy. But it also sparks a serious jealous streak in her nemesis, Mrs. Gobble Gracker, who wants all of Dory's attention to herself.
But Mrs. Gobble Gracker has decided to steal the tooth fairy's job, and flying around in a tutu from Rosabelle, she heads for Dory's house. It's time for Dory to come up with a serious plan to get the tooth fairy her job back.
The fourth installment in the wildly popular Dory Fantasmagory series delivers laughs on every page as Dory teams up with her pals, real and imaginary, to save the tooth fairy for all the world's children--and get her dollar!
Author Notes
Abby Hanlon has taught creative writing and first grade in the New York City public school system. Inspired by her students' storytelling and drawings, Abby began to write her own stories for children, and taught herself to draw after not having drawn since childhood.
Reviews (3)
Horn Book Review
Dory Fantasmagory is as imaginative as ever in this fourth chapter book in which she discovers her first wiggly tooth. Of course, it's not that simple: Dory worries that her "enemy," Mrs. Gobble Gracker, will come instead of the Tooth Fairy, and in typical Dory fashion, she pulls friends into imagination-fueled high jinks. Hanlon's childlike illustrations help beginning readers follow the energetic story. (c) Copyright 2019. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Dory Fantasmagory loses her first tooth. Hanlon continues the combination of real-life 6-year-old problems and fantastic adventure that has characterized the three previous titles in this series for chapter-book readers. Over the course of seven chapters, this superimaginative first-grader deals with two quite believable issues: she gets in trouble for lying about a "BUNCHY" coat she doesn't want to wear and, with the help of the tooth fairy, successfully vanquishes the imaginary Mrs. Gobble Gracker, who makes her behave badly. It doesn't help that her older siblings (who invented the witch in the first book) tell her that the tooth fairy brings money only to children who are good. Dory has a very hard time being good. Told mostly in dialogue-filled prose, the story is also carried out in black-and-white illustrations, which show this freckle-faced white child and her real family, friends, neighbors, and classmates (including some people of color) as well as her imaginary horned and furry friend Mary, scary Mrs. Gobble Gracker with her long fingernails, and a wonderfully ample elderly grocery shopper she's convinced is the tooth fairy. The family dynamics are entirely believable, and both adult and child readers can appreciate the humor. For reading aloud and reading alone, another satisfying sequel. (Fiction. 6-8) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
New York Review of Books Review
Many series for fledgling readers feature mischievous girls and their gradeschool exploits: Ramona Quimby, Junie B. Jones and Clementine, to name a few. Others, like the Magic Treehouse books, send children on fantasy adventures. Abby Hanlon's marvelous Dory Fantasmagory series, featuring the plucky heroine Dory, also known as Rascal, combines the two. As Dory herself puts it: "My two worlds swirl together like a chocolate and vanilla ice cream cone. Real and unreal get mixed up in one crazy flavor." On every page, Hanlon's charming illustrations - if you squint, they resemble a child's drawings - mix things up as well, interweaving layers of visual and narrative storytelling to invite us in to Dory's active imagination. The fourth and latest book in the series, DORY FANTASMAGORY: Head in the Clouds (Dial, $15.99, ages 5 to 8), will have fans rejoicing that Hanlon's hybrid formula is still going strong. Dory faces obstacles both mundane and enchanted, and surmounts them all. She dumps an objectionable winter coat and de vises a pretend game to captivate a weepy friend. After losing her first tooth, she recognizes the Tooth Fairy, shopping incognito, and chases her through a grocery store. And in perhaps her greatest triumph in the series so far, she foils the evil plan of her imaginary nemesis, Mrs. Gobble Gracker, to take over that benevolent spirit's nightly visits. Throughout the series, Dory deals with conventional problems - handling scornful older siblings, starting school, making friends, learning to read - in unconventional ways. In the first book, she faces her kindergarten fears by inventing Mrs. Gobble Gracker, an even more intimidating foe. With her looming stature and witchy features, she recalls James Marshall's illustrations of Miss Viola Swamp, "the meanest substitute teacher in the whole world," in "Miss Nelson Is Missing," by Harry G. Allard Jr. Dory's everyday world is populated with other magical and comic figures, like Mary, her monster, and Mr. Nuggy, her (male) fairy godmother. And while many stories for children send their protagonists back to the real world for good - Wendy grows up and can't return to Neverland; Lucy leaves Narnia; Jackie Paper abandons Puff the Magic Dragon - Hanlon does not champion maturity as the answer to adversity. A former first-grade teacher, she recognizes the value of coping strategies that are particular to children. Rascal becomes resilient, resourceful and adventurous thanks to the permeable boundary between reality and fantasy, not in spite of it. "Try not to imagine things," Dory's sister, Violet, tells her when she heads off to kindergarten. But it is Rascal's imagination that allows her to adapt to new surroundings, practice new skills and make new friends. In "Head in the Clouds," Hanlon once again shows an unerring sense of what distresses children (that "bunchy" winter coat), what excites them (candy canes discovered in pockets), and what they fear (a tooth fairy delivery gone astray). There is, as always, much to laugh over. We see Luke's and Violet's frustrated memories of life with infant Dory. We learn the contents of the Tooth Fairy's purse (like Beyoncé, she carries a certain condiment). And we get Mrs. Gobble Gracker's withering assessment of "Where the Wild Things Are": "I'll show them terrible teeth." When Dory loses her first tooth, her doleful friend Melody sobs, "It means you are growing up!" The admiring reader earnestly hopes not yet. ?