One morning in Karori
At this point of time I do my best to distract Violet while I run off to put the money under her pillow and magic away the tooth. But since I was drawing this comic while she was around, I drew this alternate ending:
People don’t seem to draw drunks in children’s stories anymore, but I always loved the bit in Tintin, when either Captain Haddock, Tintin or Snowy had been drinking whiskey.
Also, I was experimenting with a different drawing style. I spent the past few years doing outlines in India ink and then watercolouring, but I really like a lighter line as well. This blog title is a homage to one of my favourite children’s books illustrators, Robert McClusky, and his tooth-losing tale, One Morning In Maine. I was also thinking of Freya Blackwood, who does the most beautiful pencil and ink illustrations, with lovely limited colour palettes.
LET ME BE FRANK 
Haha, love it, drunks in fairy tales and forgetful fairies. She forgot a tooth at my house last week too!
This is great! Adult humor hidden in kids stories…Awesome!
love the new drawing style, sarah! the tooth fairy is pretty useless at our place, too – she might be fun to drink wine with though?
Masterful (in a non-gender-specific kind of way), epoch-defining but also useful and strangely uplifting, this comic deserves to become a standard ‘parenting’ text (or is there such a thing as ‘childing’ (?) — it could be one of those texts too). Go SL.
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Lovely unexpected ending that brought an unexpected smile to my face.
Lovely! I wonder if you have ever seen Kristen Wiig’s “Confessions of a Tooth Fairy” – from her early comedy days…..to me it just gets funnier every time….
Thanks Sarah – enjoyed this very much