This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.

Copyright © 2007 by Gregory Maguire
Cover illustration copyright © 2009 by Sarah Coleman

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First electronic edition 2010

The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Maguire, Gregory.
What-the-Dickens : the story of a rogue tooth fairy /
by Gregory Maguire. — 1st ed.
p.  cm.
Summary: As a terrible storm rages, ten-year-old Dinah and her brother and sister listen to their cousin Gage’s tale of a newly hatched, orphaned skibberee, or tooth fairy, called What-the-Dickens, who hopes to find a home among the skibberee tribe, if only he can stay out of trouble.
ISBN 978-0-7636-2961-8 (hardcover)
[1. Tooth fairy — Fiction. 2. Orphans — Fiction. 3. Storytelling — Fiction.
4. Storms — Fiction. 5. Cousins — Fiction. 6. Fantasy.]  I. Title.
PZ7.M2762Wha 2007
[Fic] — dc22    2007024186

ISBN 978-0-7636-4147-4 (paperback)
ISBN 978-0-7636-4307-2 (reformatted paperback)
ISBN 978-0-7636-5171-8 (electronic)

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