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Reviewed by Donna Gielow McFarland for Readers' Favorite
So it turns out that there’s not just one tooth fairy, there are lots of them! Everything is explained in The Tooth Collector Fairies: Home from Decay Valley by Denise Ditto Satterfield. The fairies attend school at Oral Academy under Crown Mistress Molar in Brushalot, where they study the Tooth Collector Handbook and learn the Five Fairy Principles. What do the fairies do with the teeth? Clean teeth are ground into fairy dust, which is used for flying. But when Tooth Collector Batina collects a poorly brushed tooth, she has to deliver it to the dreaded Decay Valley and remain banished there until the child who didn’t brush their teeth loses another tooth. Once she’s done all she can, she can only hope the next tooth will be better brushed, otherwise, the fairy that retrieves it will be banished along with Batina. It is up to Batina’s friends to assist her, and one of her friends needs to learn not to cheat!
The Tooth Collector Fairies: Home from Decay Valley is an early chapter book, written for kids in grades K-3 who are ready for more than early readers, but not quite ready for chapter books. With short chapters, lots of color illustrations, an age-appealing topic, and an appropriate reading level, I think Denise Ditto Satterfield has nailed it. The story is pretty cute and it drew me right in. I felt so sorry for little Batina and is it really fair that she got banished? It’s not her fault the kid didn’t brush! I had to keep reading to find out what happened to her. The book makes a point about tooth brushing without being preachy, but the application is clear: brush your teeth well, or your tooth fairy might get banished! If I were a young reader, I’m not sure I would want to risk not brushing. What if it’s true?
