What's Everybuggy Reading: Spider
April and Esme, Tooth Fairies
by Bob Graham
Candlewick, 2010
Until I read "Dear Tooth Fairy" in this month's issue of Spider, I always pictured the tooth fairy as an old woman with gray hair and glasses and pockets overflowing with quarters. But in this book, when Daniel Dangerfield loses his tooth, two fairies come to make the exchange—and they’re only six- and seven-years-old! April and Esme are sisters that live with their tooth fairy parents in a teeny-tiny house beside the highway. Their parents usually make the house calls, but this time April got a call on her cell phone from Daniel’s grandma requesting her personally. (I know, right? The only thing weirder than a seven-year-old tooth fairy is a seven-year-old tooth fairy with a cell phone!)
But the phone comes in handy later when Daniel wakes up and sees April and Esme. A text from their mom tells them to whisper in his ear that he’s dreaming, and that they are “fairies of the air.” Daniel totally buys it, and they get out of there with a brand new tooth for their parents.
Man, I wish my parents were tooth fairies so I'd be born with flying powers—my hair looks great all windswept! Ophelia told me people usually scream when they find spiders on their pillows, though, so I’d have to be extra sneaky.
Good thing I'm a very sneaky Spider. . . .
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