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A worried child's wondrous imagination ...

A lot of thought has gone into how the tooth fairy is going to get here (France), if needed -

Apparently, there is a whole company of tooth fairies, who live in England, in a village of tooth shaped houses, with lampshades for roofs and pencil chimneys. The houses are, naturally, built of teeth. When a child's tooth is about to fall out, the fairies get a day's warning, so that they can prepare for the journey. If they have to travel far, such as France, then they can borrow Lady Penelope's flying, pink car. Because a fairy can only fly for about an hour, before her wings get tired. And, in case you wondered, they can shrink the car when they are flying and store it in their fairy rucsac.

The tooth fairy won't get lost, because Lady Penelope's car has sat nav. And she won't take the ferry across the channel, because a fairy on a ferry sounds silly!

In case she gets hungry, she will have a bag of fruit peelings - apple, plum and banana. And it takes a lot of effort for fairies to pick fruit - 19, all pulling together to pull an apple off its stalk.

So, if any tooth fairy is listening (or reading), your trip is all planned down to the last, minute detail - so all you have to do is watch Thunderbirds, learn how to fly Lady Penelope's car and avoid the ferry.
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