Genre:
Middle Grade
Description:
“When
Isabella, the tooth fairy, falls foul of a trap to capture her, it is
up to her lifelong friend, Jamie, to mount a fearless rescue.
Isabella is
not only captured but she also loses her magical powers; she is a
prisoner with no means of escaping by herself.
Her only
chance of freedom is if Jamie realizes that she is missing and can
get to her before it is too late.
Will Jamie
find Isabella?
Will he
suffer the same fate as his lifelong friend?
Will they
manage to escape and return home safely?
This is an
original story with a modern twist on the classic tooth fairy
character.
The fairies
are both male and female and they use computers to hold their tooth
schedules.”
Author:
An English
native, de la Perrelle is fulfilling her lifetime dream to write
after a long and successful career.
For more,
visit de la Perrelle’s Facebook page.
Appraisal:
“Crash,
bang, clang, clatter! Isabella was rudely shaken from her peaceful
slumber.”
A simple,
yet powerful, first two lines that struck me as especially good.
Already, we have a conflict developing to pull the reader in. It
worked for me and it worked for “The Princess,” my nine year-old
granddaughter, who assisted me with her thoughts on The
Wobbler! This is the first of
three books planned in a series of tooth fairy adventures. It’s
well edited with a modern fairy tale storyline and story world that
should appeal to children of many ages. The vocabulary and length are
perfect for ages eight to ten and would be ideal for a parent or
older sibling to read to younger kids.
The
Princess enjoyed The Wobbler!,
giving it a letter grade of A-. Her favorite part was when the main
character, Isabella, got “trapped.” I don’t want to say too
much about this to avoid spoilers, but I can say that this happens
relatively early in the book and is the first major crisis, setting
up the rest of the story. The Princess was drawn into Isabella’s
dilemma, wondering, “what’s going to happen next?” Strange (at
least to me) was when I asked The Princess her least favorite part of
the story and she said it was Isabella’s “complaining” after
getting trapped. This didn’t seem extreme to me and only emphasized
her desperate situation. I guess The Princess wanted her to “suck
it up” and get on with problem solving, trying to figure out how to
get out of the trap.
Although
The Princess liked the book, she suggested that, while kids up to
nine or slightly older would enjoy reading The Wobbler!, the book was
ideally suited for reading to younger kids who “still believe in
the tooth fairy.”
FYI:
UK spelling
conventions.
The book
has some illustrations that render well in black and white for an
eink Kindle, but to get the full flavor, a Fire or other color
capable reader or app would be slightly better.
Added
for Reprise Review: Adventures
of the Tooth Fairies: The Wobbler!
by S. de la Perrelle was the WINNER in the Children's Books category
for B&P 2013 Readers' Choice Awards. Original review ran February
14, 2013.
Format/Typo
Issues:
No
significant issues.
Rating:
***** Five Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl with input from The
Princess
Approximate
word count: 10-15,000 words
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