Mousetraps. Venus fly traps. Tooth floss spider webs. Cardboard boxes. Gotta catch em all!
Title: How to Catch the Tooth Fairy
Author: Adam Wallace
Illustrator: Andy Elkerton
Rating: 9
Readability: 10
Source: Raincoast Books for review
Description from Goodreads:
Losing a tooth is an exciting and notable event in the life of a child – what will the tooth fairy bring? Following up on the New York Times best-seller How to Catch a Leprechaun, this book presents a wonderfully creative opportunity for children and parents to have fun and celebrate together.
How to catch the Tooth Fairy?
It’s not an easy task.
You can try to catch her,
but she is just too fast!
What I Thought:
A-stinkin-dorable.
The tooth fairy flies around collecting teeth, but in each home the children have set traps for her! Each contraption gets increasingly complex and diabolical as the story progresses.
I love the direction that Elkerton took the illustrations. Usually fairies are depicted as ethereal, timeless entities. But in this book the fairies wear bomber jackets, toques, army helmets, combat boots, and chew bubble gum. Such a fun twist!
The colours are bright and vibrant with great movement in the characters. I really love his style.
Wallace wrote a very easy to read book. The rhymes flow nicely and tell a hilarious story. I love that the tooth fairy saves a couple of friends along the way, and that they turn up to help her out at the end. This book even has morals!
I also loved seeing the diversity of children and fairies in this book. Boys and girls of many different ethnicities were included, and at the end a boy named Sanjeev lays the most expert trap of the night.
I don’t think I’ve ever read a book about the tooth fairy before, but I’m glad I read this one! Wonderfully written, spunkily drawn, and just all around fun.
Extras:
I found this super cute app where you can put a picture of a fairy over top of a picture of your sleeping kid so they have “proof” that the tooth fairy was there. Adorable! Check it out at iCaughtTheToothFairy.com
TL;DR:
You can’t catch me! I’m the gingerbread-flavoured floss man!
October 22, 2016 at 3:18 pm
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October 25, 2016 at 9:12 pm
What a fun book! I’m putting that on my list for when the teeth start wiggling, thanks:-)
October 26, 2016 at 7:45 am
It was super adorable! 😁
October 27, 2016 at 7:08 am
Setting traps for the tooth fairy…what a bunch of brats!! 😉 From what I can see from the cover, the illustrations ARE pretty dope and none of that regular fairy stuff. And that app is just priceless! I wonder if they have one with an underwear gnome as well for my nephew…
October 30, 2016 at 8:55 pm
Hahaha what on earth is an underwear gnome??
October 31, 2016 at 4:10 am
It’s a gnome, or well, several of them, who sneak into your bedroom at night to
stealborrow your underwear. They use it to set up a tent with it (they’re basically nomads) in your backyard or relatively close by, at least, to shelter from the wind and stuff for the night. Very early in the morning, they return your underwear back to you, and go on their way again to the next adventure. If you notice any brown stains in your underwear after you’ve gotten out of bed, you know you’ve been visited by an underwear gnome ;).October 31, 2016 at 7:17 am
I’m actually dying 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
October 31, 2016 at 9:20 am
I combined a Southpark episode with some of my own imagination for this when my sisters’s kids were still little ;). Hard to hold it together if your nephew comes down the stairs, crying that he’s been visited by an underwear gnome ^^
November 1, 2016 at 10:22 am
That is adorbs! Love the app idea, too!