April and Esme Tooth Fairies
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780763646837 (0763646830)
Publish date: September 14th 2010
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Pages no: 40
Edition language: English
A contemporary twist to the tooth fairy tale. April and Esme are two tiny child fairies complete with cell phones! They take off on their first tooth retrieval, with courage and determination. A cute story for little ones of a new generation.
Normally I wouldn't be wowed by a book like this. For starters, it isn't my style of illustration at all - cutesy and cartoony . But I really love books that juxtapose magic and the modern world. Countless stories of magic are set in history or in far away (i.e. unreachable) realms. Here we have a f...