Description: From the bestselling author of "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" comes a tale-within-a-tale about the strange world of the "skibbereen" (also known as tooth fairies) and the universal need to believe.

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Children's Literature Review: Gregory Maguire may have started out as a children's writer but he has made most of his living rethinking fairy tales for adult readers. He has tackled Oz, Cinderella and Snow White, and now he has stepped over into the Children's Section again with this fanciful take about who the real tooth fairy (or fairies as the book suggests) is. This novel is narrated by a young English teacher named Gage who is in charge of his cousins during a storm that has cut off their contact with the outside world. With starvation and despair drawing near, Gage tells a story about an orphan skibberee, a small fairy-like creature, named What-the-Dickens. As What-the-Dickens comes to terms with his species' calling as tooth fairies and candle growers, Gage and his cousins come to terms with what their own futures might hold if the children's parents do not survive the storm. While the descriptions of both the storm raging outside and What-the-Dicken's growing awareness of the world around him will draw read...

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