This story was CRAZY.
This story was OBNOXIOUS.
This story was NAUSEATING, SMELLY, and STRANGE.
This story was also….A BLAST!

Think about it. Depending on where you’re from, the term fairies DOES in fact conjure up little sprightly creatures of lore that are either mischievous, or angelic, flying bout their day like it was nobodies business. These fairies? Yeah, not so much because while the imagined deal in light, fluffy, and magical things, they deal in the discarded, unwanted, or underappreciated things. Have a friend that’s lax on their flatulence? The Fart Fairy is your man! Think that kid across the way that digs for green gold is ludicrous? Not when it comes to the Snot Fairy and his trade! Or what about that other friend that tends to leave their less than laundered undergarments out and about when you really wish they’d simply dump them in the wash bin and be done with them? Yeah, there’s a fairy for that too! In fact, there’s one for pretty much any gross, gruesome, or less-than-ordinary endeavor, so before you discount the things that seem out there or strange to you and yours, consider the others that might revel in that oddness like a duck to water, a monkey to a tree, or a dung beetle to...well, you get the picture.

A strange and out there story, it’s true, but filled with imagination, creativity, and laughs to boot both in the telling and the imagery. ( )

Even though I gag while reading this book to my son, his giggles and excitement over the disgusting fairies make this one a keeper. ( )

Kids will love this the earwax fairy, the snot fairy, the fart fairy, the belly button lint fairy etc.

There are several books about the tooth fairy for small children.

Most of these books seek to reassure kids in some way with the prospect of getting rewards for losing their teeth. Most of them feature girly tooth fairies. Oh, some are more active than others, but (with the exception of the one in Andrew's Loose Tooth, another book I highly recommend) they're all clean and diligent, at least.

Ever occur to you that that's a bit boring? That maaaaaybe what the tooth fairy genre really needs is some gross, gross, grosser-than-gross potty humor? Some fart fairies, earwax fairies, booger fairies...?

Yeah, me either. And yet, that's what this book serves up, a bundle of unwashed flim-flammers trying to convince you to put all sorts of disgusting things under your pillow, things INSTEAD of teeth. They argue, they interrupt each other - and they drive the real tooth fairy up a wall. It's great fun, and any child who thinks they're too grown-up for the tooth fairy, or who likes gross-out stories (girls go through that phase too, of course) is SURE to love this book.

Just... uh... if you're using it as a read-aloud, you might not want to read it on a full stomach. Blech. ( )