Penny Knobel-Besa

Under Your Pillow

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Produktbeschreibung

"Under Your Pillow" is an adventure of Danny, a boy with a loose tooth, who is forced to move from New York city when his stepfather, Brad inherits the family Toothbrush Factory in Omaha, Nebraska. Once there he learns they might go bankrupt unless he can stop the factory from closing. His little sister Polly wishes on the first star to visit the Tooth Fairy at her house and learns the fairy's life story. How did the Tooth Fairy discover her special powers? What happens to the teeth she finds under the pillow? Danny wishes to save the toothbrush factory. Father Goose shows up taking them flying on his back to fairyland. They stop by to see Santa's reindeer tryouts and Candyland. They meet B.B. Wolf who wants to be a rockstar and he's wrongly blamed when Mother Goose goes missing. Danny and B. B.'s nephew Willie Wolf find Mother Goose tied up in D. K.'s lair. He's the villain that's been stealing toothbrushes plus boxes of musical toothbrushes handles from the toothbrush factory. Mr. DK wants to take over fairyland and he steals the Tooth Fairy's wand. Danny and B.B. follow him to the bell tower and rescue the wand defeating D.K. Danny and Polly return asleep in their beds. Then Danny meets his cousin Ben who he decides looks like Willie. They decide to check the factory for more of those musical toothbrush handles via a bike trip where they find the fired factory foreman stealing boxes. They have to stop him. There is a final hair-raising event when they jump into the old pickup truck and are forced to drive around the parking lot chased by foreman Mr. D. K. Jenkins until they crash onto a pier. And Brad rushes in time to save them. Danny shows Brad the musical toothbrushes handles work and Danny has saved toothbrush factory. Plus, he finds that moving was the best thing that ever happened to him.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palmetto Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9798822986909
• Artikelnr.: 75298771

Autorenporträt

Penny Knobel-Besa originally from Baltimore, Maryland began writing during her youth winning essay and poetry contests but her interest in theatre took her in a different direction as an actress and then as director/producer. She obtained a degree in theatre from Towson University, a Master's Degree from University of Baltimore and post graduate studies in directing at Yale University and at Johns Hopkins writing program. She founded Maryland Theatre Arts Company (MTA Company) began writing scenes for musical reviews and then a children's musical, "Under Your Pillow" which included seven songs she wrote. She directed the Off-Broadway production in New York where it was picked up for development as a motion picture. Now living in Allegany County, she moved the MTA Company to Cumberland, Maryland where she wrote and produced play adaptations from various classics, Alice In Wonderland, Secret Garden, and Little Women. She was the first to bring an old art deco movie hall The Embassy, back to theatre, with the Governor's wife cutting the ribbon for the opening of her musical play versions of , "Coppelia" and "Peter and The Wolf". Later she premiered another original play, "Dream Pirates" one day in the life Robert Louis Stevenson as an imaginative child and on the last day of his life. She then retired from theatre to pursue photography having been named Maryland Photographer of the Year, she shows in Europe and on the east coast from Maine to Louisiana winning awards. She is published in several literary journals. In March 2022 she wrote, produced and directed a new play a musical drama, "Almost Heaven" (as in West Virginia) proving you can't retire from theatre. This is her first published book which was written for her Godchild Lacy.