

Tansy Miller has been angry at her father since he and his mother divorced. Everything else is new, though the premise plays out in much the same way.

The only returning people are Chrissy - the very lackadaisical, and somewhat incompetent fairy godmother, who has just picked up moonlighting as the tooth fairy since she can’t seem to get into the Fairy Godmother University - and her erstwhile (and somewhat grumpy) assistant Clover, the leprechaun. My Unfair Godmother is the second book, and while it helps if you’ve read the first, it’s not necessary. It stood out because I didn’t read this one out loud to C, and found that it worked just as well as a read as it did as a read-aloud.

In going back and looking at what I wrote, this jumped out at me: “I’m not sure how well this would stand up if I had read it by myself, but I really enjoyed reading it aloud.” I read the first book in this series, My Fair Godmother, out loud to C about two years ago. Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there! First sentence: “Dear Professor Goldengill, Thank you for another opportunity to raise my semester grade with an extra credit project.”
