What the Dickens The Story of a Rogu..., Gregory Maguire
What the Dickens The Story of a Rogu..., Gregory Maguire
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What the Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy

Author: Gregory Maguire

Narrator: Jason Culp

Unabridged: 7 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/01/2007

Synopsis

A terrible storm is raging, and ten-year-old Dinah is huddled by candlelight with her brother, sister, and cousin Gage, who is telling a very unusual tale. It's the story What-the-Dickens, a newly hatched orphan creature who finds he has an attraction to teeth, a crush on a cat named McCavity, and a penchant for getting into trouble. One day he happens upon a feisty girl skibberee who is working as an Agent of Change-trading coins for teeth-and learns that there is a dutiful tribe of skibbereen (call them tooth fairies) to which he hopes to belong. As his tale of discovery unfolds, however, both What-the-Dickens and Dinah come to see that the world is both richer and less sure than they ever imagined.

About Gregory Maguire

Gregory Maguire is the New York Times bestselling author of the Wicked Years, a series that includes Wicked—the beloved classic that is the basis for the blockbuster Tony Award–winning Broadway musical of the same name and the major motion picture—Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz. His series Another Day continues the story of Oz with The Brides of Maracoor, The Oracle of Maracoor, and The Witch of Maracoor, and his other novels include A Wild Winter Swan, Hiddensee, After Alice, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Lost, and Mirror Mirror. Some of his novels for children include Cress Watercress, Leaping Beauty, and Egg & Spoon, winner of a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor. He lives in New England and France.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mary Beth

This is a difficult book to review. I adore What-the-Dickens and Pepper, and much of his/their story is extremely charming and sweet. The narrative about Dinah and her siblings and Gage, however, was simply hard to get into and doesn't make a lot of sense. It also takes up way too much of the book w......more

Goodreads review by Stuart

Hands down the most delightful book that Maguire has written in years, this book is a quick read (a fast reader might pull it off in a day- I took two) and a fun little piece of fantasy, somewhere on the border between young adult fiction and regular old adult fantasy. It's more original than most o......more

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