Zoe is learning to be a tooth fairy. But its much harder than it would seem. Zoe and her friend encounter several problems - finding the house and a way in, and being quiet so they don''t wake anyone. Then they must take the tooth and leave the money.'
Zoë the fairy returns in this second picture-book devoted to her adventures, following upon Zoë at Fairy School, which chronicled her first day at school, under the tutelage of the Fairy Queen herself. Now Zoë and her best friend Pip have passed their Tooth Fairy exams, and are dispatched on their first job collecting teeth and handing out coins. As one thing after the other goes wrong, the two little fairies become more and more flustered, and they barely manage to leave their coin before dawn is breaking. But have they forgotten an important part of the job...?
Published in 2000, Zoë the Tooth Fairy is the second of ten books from English author/illustrator Jane Andrews about this pint-sized little fairy and her (so far) mostly school-based experiences. Like its predecessor, I found it mildly enjoyable, but it isn't destined to become a favorite. The story was a little less slight than in the first book—at least here we have the series of mishaps which Zoë and Pip must deal with, in their first job as Tooth Fairies—and I appreciated the humorous ending, in which it becomes apparent that Zoë and Pip have . The artwork, while not to my taste, was colorful and cute. In truth, I think there are better tooth fairy books out there, whether one wants something with a classic feeling like Peter Collington's wordless The Tooth Fairy, or something humorous and less traditional like Bob Graham's April and Esme: Tooth Fairies, and I would recommend such books over this one. That said, as I'm reading this series largely to get to the fourth witchy(!) entry, Zoë and the Witches' Spell, for my perennial "witchy witches" project, I will undoubtedly keep on with these books for now.