While mischief is evident in both Kaylee’s and the Tooth Fairy’s eyes, it’s also clear that they understand and like each other, making their battle of wits a playful challenge. Rolli’s rich color pallet enhances the magical atmosphere,and images of a fully laden dessert table, puppies and kittens plummeting into the kitchen, and the Tooth Fairy stuck to the refrigerator with gum will make kids laugh out loud. Rolli sets the stage with examples of Kaylee’s early pranks on her sister and classmates (two of whom are appropriately wary of the chocolate sandwich cookies on offer, while an unsuspecting newcomer is all smiles). After their tricks send them both ducking for cover, they discover that they’re kindred spirits and make perfect best friends.įrom the glittery cover to the wild, action-packed pages, Jennifer Hansen Rolli conjures up delightfully designed trickery that will charm kids. With her vivacious, conversational tone, Russell crafts the camaraderie of a sleepover even as the two pranksternistas try to outwit each other. That night was just the beginning for “two prank princesses and one new friendship.”Įrin Danielle Russell’s talent for humor and creating feisty heroines is on full, fun display in her rollicking debut picture book. Soon the kitchen was shiny and neat again, and Kaylee and the Tooth Fairy shared fairy-dust cookies as Kaylee handed over her lost tooth. They sent the cats and dogs soaring back into the sky with little umbrellas and the frogs hopping happily into the yard. “Kaylee had one more trick up her pajama sleeve.” She and the Tooth Fairy used the sprayer to clean up the floor and the bubble gun to fix the wand. When things settle down, Kaylee looked at the Tooth Fairy and the Tooth Fairy looked at Kaylee. “And if you know anything about tooth fairies, you know a broken wand means… Topsy-Turvy Tooth Fairy Trouble!” Kaylee and the Tooth Fairy cowered under the table as swirling clouds and lightning sent everything in the kitchen flying. Things got sticky, and in the battle, the Tooth Fairy’s magic wand split apart. My wish for each of you who reads this is that you find your life as fun and as fulfilling as I do.Image copyright Jennifer Hansen Rolli, 2018, text copyright Erin Danielle Russell, 2018. My first book wasn't published till 1993, but I've made up for the late start and have had over 50 conventional books and another over-50 ebooks published in the time since then, and I'm still going strong. I have also ghostwritten books and other materials for clients. I still edit, and I do other writing besides books, on assignment for clients who ask for anything from business plans to advertisements to scripts for promotional films. My past includes stints as a theatre reviewer and specialty-newspaper publisher, a lot of freelance editing, and a bit of agenting. I jump out of bed each morning (always by 5 AM and often earlier), eager to start a new day. My life hasn't always been easy - I'm a cancer survivor and have had additional health issues too, as well as other adversities - but it's been a marvelous ride so far, and I hope it just keeps going and going and going. I am definitely a glass-half-full person, and there is no one in the world I'd want to trade lives with. My earliest serious aspiration was to be an actress, and I'm still a ham who loves the limelight, but I traded in my theatrical dreams for the writing life decades ago and have no regrets whatsoever. By age 9, I had written a play (admittedly short and childish, but a play nonetheless), which was put on at summer camp, and there were stories and poems too, some of which were printed in such places as the newsletter of the arts program I took part in, and the local weekly paper in the community where I grew up. I have been writing for as long as I can remember - from back when I first learned to spell t-h-e c-a-t. They beckoned, and in 1984 I answered, leaving my beloved NY behind. A part of me had always felt I belonged where the warm tropical breezes shake the palm fronds into beckoning motions. Born in the suburbs of New York, I moved to the city itself as soon as I was old enough to go out on my own, eventually transplanting myself to South Florida.
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