{"id":314,"date":"2009-01-09T13:55:12","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T17:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/09\/review-of-what-the-dickens-by-gregory-maguire\/"},"modified":"2009-01-23T21:36:16","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T01:36:16","slug":"review-of-what-the-dickens-by-gregory-maguire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"Review of What-the-dickens, by Gregory Maguire"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What-the-dickens<\/em><\/p>\n

The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy<\/em><\/p>\n

by Gregory Maguire<\/p>\n

Candlewick Press, 2007.\u00a0 295 pages.<\/p>\n

Dinah and Zeke and Rebecca Ruth are stuck in a disaster.\u00a0 They are home alone in the middle of a storm of epic proportions with only their cousin Gage, who’s barely an adult himself, to look after them.<\/p>\n

Gage decides to tell them a story, to take their mind off their hopeless plight.\u00a0 He tells them about a skibberee, more commonly called a Tooth Fairy.<\/p>\n

What-the-dickens was in a fix himself, from the moment he was born, not in a colony like most skibbereen.\u00a0 He didn’t even know that the first words he heard weren’t intended to be his name.<\/p>\n

After several adventures and narrow escapes that he doesn’t realize are narrow escapes, What-the-dickens meets a tooth fairy on a job.\u00a0 Her name is Pepper, and she’s having trouble getting her license\u00a0to become an Agent of Change.\u00a0 She brings What-the-dickens back to the colony, but he doesn’t fit in very well.<\/p>\n

With the dire situation of Dinah and her brother and sister, this book is a bit dark.\u00a0 But the intriguing story gives you the feeling of a light in a dark place.<\/p>\n

Definitely not your run-of-the-mill fantasy tale.\u00a0 Ideal for upper elementary school readers who want to try something different.<\/p>\n

Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n

www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/what_the_dickens.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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