In development
Underpillow
The Secret Files the Tooth Fairy Never Meant You to Find
Peter Liptak · Tooth & Tale
A loose tooth, a hidden world, and an introduction from Tuth Trol that raises rather more questions than it answers.
This book is taking shape. A publication date and purchase edition have not been announced here.
Upcoming books at Exile Press ↗Welcome to the world beneath the pillow.
Losing a tooth is an ordinary little milestone. What happens on the other side of the pillow is considerably less ordinary. Underpillow begins with the wonder of that encounter: the feeling that a hidden world has noticed you, and that its magic has a rather peculiar way of introducing itself.
Enter Tuth Trol. Earnest, practical, and newly trusted with tooth collection, he brings his own understanding of the job. His spelling is unreliable. His intentions are good. His notes make it very difficult to believe that the familiar Tooth Fairy story is the whole story.
Strange reports. Very serious paperwork.
The wider Tooth & Tale world takes small tooth incidents with magnificent seriousness. Letters, official-looking records, odd procedures, and competing accounts leave clues to the institutions working out of sight. The humor belongs to their overcomplicated business; the child gets to be curious, capable, and in on the joke.
The first way in.
The first book is being shaped as a younger reader’s welcome to Underpillow: wonder, celebration, and Tuth Trol’s unusual arrival. The illustrated secret-file cover offers a glimpse of the larger world. The story and its final form are still developing.