On a scale, 1 to 10, it’s more like 15!”

The family dynamics are entirely believable, and both adult and child readers can appreciate the humor.įor reading aloud and reading alone, another satisfying sequel.Ī young visionary describes his ideal school: “Perfectly planned and impeccably clean. Gobble Gracker with her long fingernails, and a wonderfully ample elderly grocery shopper she’s convinced is the tooth fairy. Told mostly in dialogue-filled prose, the story is also carried out in black-and-white illustrations, which show this freckle-faced white child and her real family, friends, neighbors, and classmates (including some people of color) as well as her imaginary horned and furry friend Mary, scary Mrs. It doesn’t help that her older siblings (who invented the witch in the first book) tell her that the tooth fairy brings money only to children who are good. Gobble Gracker, who makes her behave badly. Over the course of seven chapters, this superimaginative first-grader deals with two quite believable issues: she gets in trouble for lying about a “BUNCHY” coat she doesn’t want to wear and, with the help of the tooth fairy, successfully vanquishes the imaginary Mrs. In her sixth book, Dory delivers hoots and oopses on every page, entangling her friends-real and imaginary-in fabulous plots that sometimes take even Dory herself by delightful surprise.Hanlon continues the combination of real-life 6-year-old problems and fantastic adventure that has characterized the three previous titles in this series for chapter-book readers. Maybe a haunting is exactly what's needed to get this family back to normal. Gobble Gracker reappears, wearing a wedding dress, and Dory’s mom makes an announcement that leaves not just Dory reeling but her siblings too. These are big feelings, and Dory knows what to do: She throws a sheet over her head and haunts her family everywhere they go so they can't leave her, much to the annoyance of her brother and sister. Dory suspects her mom will soon sail off on a ship across the world to eat cake and play kickball and never return. When Dory loses track of her mom in the hardware store, it leads to a touch of separation anxiety.

The wildly popular, ever hilarious Dory Fantasmagory series is back for a sixth adventure, with Dory turning separation anxiety into a ghostly, goofy escapade.

Dory fantasmagory series book 6