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This is the second early chapter book in the Piper Green and the Fairy Tree series, but it can be read as a stand-alone as well.
Grade two student Piper thinks she’s going to have lots of luck because of four events that happen to her in one day: she loses a tooth, she is getting her bedroom painted lime green, she was given a cinnamon bun to eat, and she found a perfect strawberry to put in the Fairy Tree. But her friend Jacob leads her to believe she’s going to have bad luck because “four lucky things is TOO MUCH good luck. And too much good luck equals bad luck.” (Jacob comes from a superstitious family).
After getting off Mr. Grindle’s lobster boat (he is the school-boat driver for the children who live on Peek-A-Boo Island), her luck does seem to change. She decides to blame it all on Camilla, the new girl in her class.
I liked this book as much as the first one. We learn more about Piper’s little brother’s paper wife (she gets a tattoo) and more about her best friend Ruby (she wears lobster bands as rings). Their princess-looking teacher, Ms. Arabella, is featured more in this book because of a lie Piper tells Camilla. There is a tiny portion of the story which will remind readers of pirates and their pet birds, and in a land where fairies maybe do exist.
One full-page black-and-white illustration appears in each chapter of this book. They help the reader visualize the binky move Ruby, Piper, and Nacho (the class bunny) do, and new areas of the island such as the lighthouse and beach.
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Piper Green and the Fairy Tree: Too Much Good Luck