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    Toothiana, Queen of the Tooth Fairy Armies
    Toothiana, Queen of the Tooth Fairy Armies
    Toothiana, Queen of the Tooth Fairy Armies
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    Toothiana, Queen of the Tooth Fairy Armies

    By William Joyce

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    Beware a tooth fairy queen scorned in this, the third chapter book of Academy Award winner William Joyce’s The Guardians series. There’s a lot more to this tooth-swiping sprite than meets the eye!

    When last we heard, the Guardians were resting easy with the knowledge that the children of Santoff Clausen were finally safe from Pitch’s dastardly plans.

    But is it all a ruse, a scheme, a lull the evil Nightmare King has deviously concocted?

    Whatever Pitch’s plans, what he doesn’t know is that there’s a new Guardian in town, and she’s not the type to forget old grudges. Actually, she’s not the type to forget anything—because this Guardian is none other than Toothiana, the Tooth Fairy herself. She’s fierce and fast and crossing her will lead to a multitude of troubles. And, it turns out that, well, all those teeth she has been collecting? They contain memories. The forgotten memories of childhood…including the memories of how to fly. Young Katherine is hopeful that these memories might help her to remember her parents. The Guardians hope they’ll offer even further protection from Pitch.

    You can see how this information would be invaluable to our heroes. But it could also be invaluable to Pitch…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtheneum Books for Young Readers
    Release dateOct 2, 2012
    ISBN9781442454613
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    William Joyce

    William Joyce does a lot of stuff but children’s books are his true bailiwick (The Guardians series, Dinosaur Bob series, George Shrinks, and the #1 New York Times bestselling The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, which is also his Academy Award–winning short film, to name a few). He lives in Shreveport, Louisiana. Talk to William Joyce and see upcoming work on Instagram.

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    • 5/5
      I love this author & this series. The updated twist on traditional fairy tale folk tale creatures is so creative. So far the author has told the story of Santa, Easter Bunny & now tooth fairy. The magic and mystery & fantasy is perfectly blended in each story. I can't wait for the 4th book in this series which stars Jack Frost!
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed the third installment to the series, but was left a bit wanting. I wanted more of Toothiana and her story, more of the story behind the Sisters of the Wind and the flying elephant. I just wish it had been a few more chapters.
    • 3/5
      Joyce continues his Guardians of Childhood series with the third installment. Now, a third installment is always a delicate proposition; there's no longer the "newness" of the first book, or the excitement of "bigger and better" that a second book seems to promise. A third book, especially a third book in a series that is known to be longer, has to keep expanding the fictional world while maintaining the interest of its audience. It's a sort of balance between giving readers what they immediately want and what they, in the long-term, need.For the most part, Joyce manages the trick, but the result is that Toothiana feels rather like a pot-boiler. We aren't finding out so much about the world of the Guardians, and we aren't really adding to their quest. Instead, this story diverts into the history of (who will be) the next hero to join the Guardians, and much of the action revolves around a conflict that involves her past and continues into the present day. You can also get some sense of where nascent plot strands are starting to tie together, and the result is a shorter book that, in many ways, feels like Joyce pausing to take stock. It's still immensely readable, but it feels less consequential - and more full of exposition - than either of the previous entries in the series. Hopefully, the series will pick up again in a big way with the next volume, which promises to feature the Sandman - a character Joyce has already introduced in picture book form. With any luck, that will help to avert a lot of the exposition aspects and allow Joyce to charge ahead with the fun adventure.
    • 4/5
      An excellent addition to "The Guardians" series! I greatly enjoyed discovering the origins of the "Tooth Fairy", but talk about one hell of a cliffhanger ending! Poor Katherine and even a bit of pity of Pitch. The next book, where we meet the Sandman, cannot be printed soon enough for this fan.
    • 5/5
      Reason for Reading: Next in the series.Ds absolutely adores this series. He has collected them all and given them the honour of residing on his bookshelf. He really has no favourite character as he enjoys them all, even the evil Pitch. Quite a few new characters are introduced in this volume, leaving some of the smaller regular characters without much page time, though I do seem to think everyone at least does get mention. New to the series are the villain "The Monkey King", in league with Pitch of course, and his "Monkey Army, the titular character, and a surprise new character appears in the final chapters. I just love Toothiana, a re-imagining of the tooth fairy. She is a tall warrior, who has the ability to multiply into miniature versions of herself, and her appearance and mannerisms are birdlike. An appealing, attractive character. The plot marches forward with the overall arching theme of the series and yet this volume does have a somewhat separate plot of it's own, though rather esoterical, one of feeling a false relief and safety. Finding Joyce's art stunning as ever and delighting in this series, which I am fond of comparing "The Spiderwick Chronicles" not in content but in target audience and quality fantasy plot and writing.We are ready to see the movie now as we've read all the books "The Sandman" picture book review coming soon. I'm very leery as to whether we'll like it though as the movie seems to differ drastically, from character names to dropping characters from the books and even adding unheard of new characters. We'll see.......!
    • 4/5
      The next installment of William Joyce’s Guardians of Childhood (or, as the novel series is called to set it apart from the related storybooks: just The Guardians), we meet the Tooth Fairy, among some other notables of the world of myth and make-believe. Much like in the previous book, however, we don’t meet her until almost midway through the book, leaving much of the preceding story to be more “Mother Goose Goes to the Dentist” than a narrative about the Tooth Fairy (called Toothiana) and how she joins the Guardians (but that story is also present).Aside from what I thought was a weak resolution to the story’s climax, I found this story to be just as enjoyable as its predecessors, made all the more enjoyable by Joyce’s creative illustrations scattered throughout (complete with perfectly naive captions).The only other bad thing I could find is that this book was much too short. Sure, it was just as long as the others, but the story could have gone on and on and on, and I would have gladly turned page after page after page to reach the end. Nevertheless, we, the readers, are left with a terribly long wait for the next chapter, which promises to introduce the Sandman (who has been introduced in a corresponding storybook) and a character know as Jackson Overland Frost.I look forward to this, as well as to the upcoming film (though, I must admit, I look forward more to the books, as seeing films for me right now are a logistical nightmare). In the meantime, if you have not already started this series, I suggest you do. The stories themselves were so interesting, I managed to finish each volume in a couple of hours of reading.

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    Toothiana, Queen of the Tooth Fairy Armies - William Joyce

    CHAPTER ONE

    The Changes That Come with Peace

    WILLIAM THE ABSOLUTE YOUNGEST galloped through the enchanted village of Santoff Claussen on the back of a large Warrior Egg, a gift from E. Aster Bunnymund. I can’t stop or I’ll be scrambled! he shouted over his shoulder to his friend Fog. In this new game of Warrior Egg tag, to be scrambled meant you had been caught by the opposing egg team and therefore, had lost a point.

    Sascha and her brother, Petter, were in hot pursuit, riding Warrior Eggs of their own. The matchstick-thin legs of the mechanical eggs moved so fast, they were a blur.

    Comin’ in for the scramble shot! Petter warned. His long tag pole, with the egg-shaped tip, was inches away from Sascha.

    Eat my yolk, Sascha said with a triumphant laugh. She pushed a button, and suddenly, her Warrior Egg sprouted wings. She flew over the others, reaching the finish line first.

    William the Absolute Youngest slowed to a trot. Wings! he grumbled. They aren’t even in the rules!

    I invented them yesterday, said Sascha. There’s nothing in the rules that says you can’t use ’em.

    Soon Sascha was helping the youngest William construct his own set of eggbot wings. She liked the youngest William. He always tried to act older, and she appreciated his determination and spirit. Petter and Fog, feeling wild and industrious, catapulted themselves to the hollow of a tall tree where they had erected a hideout devoted to solving ancient mysteries, such as: why was there such a thing as bedtime, and what could they do to eliminate it forever?

    Across the clearing, in a tree house perched high in the branches of Big Root—the tree at the center of the village—their friend Katherine contently watched the children play.

    The air shimmered with their happy laughter. Many months had passed since the battle at the Earth’s core during which Pitch, the Nightmare King, had been soundly defeated by Katherine and the other Guardians: Ombric, the wizard; his apprentice, Nicholas St. North; their friend Nightlight; and their newest ally, the Pookan rabbit known as E. Aster Bunnymund. Pitch, who had hungered for the dreams of innocent children and longed to replace them with nightmares, had vowed with his Fearlings to make all the children of Earth live in terror. But since the great battle, he had not been seen or heard from, and Katherine was beginning to hope that Pitch had been vanquished forever.

    As for Katherine and her battle mates, their lives were forever changed. The Man in the Moon himself had given them the title of Guardians. They were heroes now, sworn to protect the children of not just Santoff Claussen, but the entire planet. They had defeated Pitch, and their greatest challenge at present was how to manage the peace. The nightmare of Pitch’s reign seemed to be over.

    The other children of the village now filled their days with mischief and magic. Bunnymund, who could burrow through the Earth with astonishing speed, had created a series of tunnels for them, connecting the village with his home on Easter Island and with other amazing outposts around the world, and the children had become intrepid explorers. On any given day they might journey to the African savanna to visit the lions, cheetahs, and hippopotami—Ombric had taught them a number of animal languages, so they had numerous stories to hear and tell. Many of the creatures had already heard of their amazing adventures.

    The children also regularly circled through Easter Island for the latest chocolate confection Bunnymund had invented, and could still be back in time for dinner and games with Bunnymund’s mechanical egg comrades. The eggs were once Bunnymund’s warriors; now they helped the children build all manner of interesting contraptions, from intricate egg-shaped puzzles where every piece was egg-shaped (a nearly impossible and frankly unexplainable feat) to egg-shaped submarines. But no matter where the children roamed or what they did to occupy their days, whenever they returned home to Santoff Claussen, it had never seemed so lovely to them.

    As Katherine sat in her tree house, she put her arm around Kailash, her great Himalayan Snow Goose, and looked out on her beloved village. The forest that surrounded and protected Santoff Claussen had bloomed into a kind of eternal spring. The massive oaks and vines that had once formed an impenetrable wall against the outside world were thick with leaves of the deepest green. The huge, spear-size thorns that had once covered the vines grew pliant and blossomed with sweet-scented flowers.

    Katherine loved the smell, and drew a deep breath of it. In the distance she could see Nicholas St. North walking with the beautiful, ephemeral Spirit of the Forest. She was more radiant now than ever before. Her gossamer robes were resplendent with blooms that shimmered like jewels. North was deep in conversation with her, so Katherine decided to investigate. She climbed on to Kailash’s back and flew down into the clearing, just in time to see William the Absolute Youngest try out the new wings with which he’d outfitted his Warrior Egg. He landed and trotted over to her.

    Want to race with us, Katherine? he asked. He gave Kailash a scratch on her neck, and the goose honked a hello.

    I will later! Katherine said, smiling. She waved to her friends and headed into the forest, realizing that it had been quite some time since any of the children had asked her to play, and an even longer time since she had accepted. In joining the world of the Guardians, she was in a strange new phase of her life—where she was neither child nor adult. As she watched the youngest William fly away with Sascha close behind him, she couldn’t help but feel a bit torn.

    Then she heard North’s hearty laugh and, underneath that, the more musical tones of the Spirit of the Forest. Katherine hurried toward them, thinking that it was hard to believe that when North first came to Santoff Claussen with his band of outlaws, it had been with the intent to steal its treasures. The Spirit of the Forest, the village’s last line of defense, had turned North’s crew of cutthroats and bandits into stone statues—hideous, hunched elves. But she had spared North, for he alone among them was pure of heart.

    When Katherine caught up with the Spirit and North, they were standing in that most strange and eerie part of the forest—the place where North’s men stood frozen in time, like stones in a forgotten burial site. With the Spirit’s help, North was bringing his bandits back to human form.

    As the Spirit touched the head of each statue, North repeated the same spell, From flesh to stone and back again. To serve with honor, your one true friend. And one by one they emerged from their frozen poses. To North’s great amusement, they hadn’t regained their size. They were still the same height as their stone selves—about two feet tall, with bulbous noses and high, childlike voices.

    Welcome back, North called out, slapping each of the elfin men on the back.

    The men stamped their little feet and waved their little arms to get their blood flowing again, and soon the children, drawn by North’s laughter, arrived. They were shocked; they often played among these small stone men, and now that they were moving—were alive, in fact—the children were most intrigued. Tall William, the first son of Old William, towered over them. Even the youngest William was overjoyed—at last he was taller than someone else.

    While the children watched, the little men kneeled before North. They took on new names as they pledged to follow their former outlaw leader in a new life of goodness. Gregor of the Mighty Stink became Gregor of the Mighty Smile. Sergei the Terrible was now Sergei the Giggler, and so on.

    It was an odd but auspicious moment, especially for North. He remembered his wild, unruly life as a bandit

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