Some children are quiet in a way that the whole world misses. Charlotte Hayes is five years old and has never made a friend. She's afraid of the backyard, terrified of the kids on the street, and in three weeks, kindergarten is coming whether she's ready or not. The only one she talks to-really talks to-is Biscuit, her big, golden-eared dog who loves her without a single question. Then one afternoon, Charlotte loses her first tooth.
Her parents wrap it in a small piece of blue silk and tuck it beneath her pillow, whispering the old promise: the Tooth Fairy will come tonight. It sounds like a story. But what happens next isn't just a story-it's a dream that changes everything. Night after night, the Tooth Fairy meets Charlotte in her sleep, walking her gently through playgrounds and classrooms and lunch tables, showing her that kindness already lives inside her and has been waiting for a door.
And slowly, dream by dream, a small and frightened girl finds out she was brave all along. A tender, deeply empathic bedtime novella for children who feel too much, parents who worry too much, and everyone who has ever needed someone to walk beside them into the scary, wonderful world.
Some children are quiet in a way that the whole world misses. Charlotte Hayes is five years old and has never made a friend. She's afraid of the backyard, terrified of the kids on the street, and in three weeks, kindergarten is coming whether she's ready or not. The only one she talks to-really talks to-is Biscuit, her big, golden-eared dog who loves her without a single question. Then one afternoon, Charlotte loses her first tooth.
Her parents wrap it in a small piece of blue silk and tuck it beneath her pillow, whispering the old promise: the Tooth Fairy will come tonight. It sounds like a story. But what happens next isn't just a story-it's a dream that changes everything. Night after night, the Tooth Fairy meets Charlotte in her sleep, walking her gently through playgrounds and classrooms and lunch tables, showing her that kindness already lives inside her and has been waiting for a door.
And slowly, dream by dream, a small and frightened girl finds out she was brave all along. A tender, deeply empathic bedtime novella for children who feel too much, parents who worry too much, and everyone who has ever needed someone to walk beside them into the scary, wonderful world.