How to Trick the Tooth Fairy by Erin Danielle Russell, illustrated by Jennifer Hansen Rolli. PICTURE BOOK. Aladdin (Simon & Schuster), 2018. $18.
9781481467322
BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3) – OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Kaylee loves to pull pranks, but the princess of pranks is
the Tooth Fairy. When these two meet, they keep trying to outprank each other.
Kaylee has size on her side, but the Tooth Fairy has magic. Progressing along
with increasingly serious tit-for-tat scenarios, by the end they work together
and become friends, turning their combined pranking genius on unsuspecting others.
This book has a nice dose of silliness, magical mayhem, and
diverse faces, but in my mind, pranking can get too close to bullying or meanness
to be much fun, so I wouldn’t want to recommend this book to many students. But
I know lots of people who think otherwise about pranking, that it’s all in good
fun. If that’s you, then this book is all in good fun as well.
P. K. Foster, teacher-librarian
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