G that she isn't the baby to kidnap and sabotages a trip to the doctor's office. When Dory pretends to be the dog her brother has always wanted, she convinces Mrs. Gobble Grackle's attempts to kidnap her with banana peels and sleep-inducing darts. Dory and her imaginary friend, Mary (who resembles Maurice Sendak's Max), are always on the lookout for monsters, and they thwart Mrs. Gobble Grackle, who steals baby girls, they unintentionally feed her already overactive imagination. When Violet and Luke tell Dory a bedtime story about the evil Mrs. School Library Journal - Gr 1–3-Six-year-old Dory, known as Rascal to her family, wants more than anything to be included in her older siblings's fun, but her endless questions and make-believe monsters drive them crazy. The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (+) (02/15) Physical Description: 151 p., ill., 20 cm.ĭory, the youngest in her family, is a girl with a very active imagination, and she spends the summer playing with her imaginary friend, pretending to be a dog, battling monsters, and generally driving her family nuts. And some kids will relish the scene about poisoning a witch others will find it troubling.Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers (2014)

Dory's antics include stabbing her doctor with a lollipop stick as revenge for a shot. There are sweet lessons along the way about being part of a loving family.

(The opening page defines 'FANTASMAGORY' as 'a dream-like state where real life and imagination are blurred together.') Hanlon shows much understated empathy for the characters and what makes kids tick, from Dory's overactive imagination and nonstop energy to the long suffering of her sibs who just want to be left in peace. When her siblings ignore her, she fills the house with imaginary (mostly cute) monsters. The first installment of a new chapter-book series, it features an intrepid 6-year-old who's about to go into first grade and doesn't let being the baby of the family slow her down. Parents need to know that Dory Fantasmagory is an entertaining story drawn from a lot of real-life experience by author/illustrator Abby Hanlon, a former first-grade teacher.

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