In her third book, Dory the rascal takes reluctant reading to new heights with a story that is as one-of-a-kind and hilarious as she is. It really needs her help-this seems like a job for a superhero! And it would help if she knew how to read. Discover Dorys first four adventures in this box set of the beloved chapter book series.Dory is a little rascal with a BIG personality-and an imagination. And a black sheep leaves the pages of the farm book to follow Dory to school.

Suddenly, a naughty little girl who looks an awful lot like Dory's imaginary nemesis, Mrs.

Dory wishes for a potion to turn her into a reader but things don't go as planned. Dorys the youngest in her family, which STINKS because it means.

While Rosabelle can read chapter books in her head, Dory is stuck with baby books about a happy little farm. Meet Dory an irresistible scamp with a huge imagination. But now the class is learning to read, and it's proving to be a challenge for Dory. And some kids will relish the scene about poisoning a witch others will find it troubling.Dory the rascal turns learning to read into a hilarious adventure through the power of imaginationĮver since Dory met Rosabelle, a real true friend whose imagination and high spirits match her own, school has been pretty good. 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. A loose tooth leads to hilarious hijinks with the tooth fairy in book four of the wonderfully imaginative Dory Fantasmagory series Dory has her first loose tooth, and, with her usual over-the-top excitement, she cannot stop talking about the tooth fairy. When her siblings ignore her, she fills the house with imaginary (mostly cute) monsters. About Dory Fantasmagory: Head in the Clouds. 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.