Next to Christopher Paul Curtis

You might be wondering what CPC has to do with Dory.  Well, I will tell you, next to the latest CPC book, this was my most anticipated release of 2018!  And it did not disappoint!  Dory has not lost her humor or originality or fabulousness.  She has just gotten better.  I don't remember her remember her being as vulnerable in the others and I love her even more!  Which I didn't think was possible!  Head in the Clouds is excellent.

Fans of Dory

And while I know one person who isn't a fan of Dory, I think she secretly is and just tells me she isn't to get me stirred up, because I just can't see how anyone couldn't love Dory Fantasmagory.  Dory Dory Black Sheep is the third in this series by Abby Hanlon and I LOVED it!  I read it again last night with another FOD who texted me just now with "I 3> Goblin" and when you read this book, you will, too!
Keeping a series funny and fresh must be hard work, I am sure, but Hanlon really knows how to do it!  Long live Dory!  Rascal!

Wow this book...

Crenshaw is a heart-melter of a book without being sappy.  It is lovely.  Just lovely.  It is written by Katherine Applegate who wrote The One and Only Ivan, which did win the Newbery, but was actually great!  That was another heart-melty book that wasn't sappy.   She wrote the Animorphs series.  I wonder what it was like changing from Animorphs to these books.  I have never read the Animorphs, so they might be awesome, too, though!  oooh...I just found that she wrote this one, too.  That looks good!  At least the cover looks good and the description seems interesting!  I think Crenshaw is certainly a Newbery contender.  It was recommended to me by a young patron, actually, who told me that everyone in her class was reading it on their own and loving it and recommending it.

Fantasmical

I LOVED Dory Fantasmagory!  Loved it!  Loved it!  And Dory Fantasmagory and the Real True Friend was just as good.  It was fantastic.  Truly.  I loved how it didn't go in the way that I thought it would.  It totally avoided being just another story about making new friends and about how it is easy to go along with a clique and how about being different is great.  It was just original and fresh, even though it is a common topic, Dory, starting a new school year and her older brother and sister telling her not to be weird like she was last year or she won't have any friends.  Dory is a girl, but anyone of any gender would love this book.

Phantasmagorical!

Dory Fantasmagory is getting Newbery buzz and once I read it, I can see why.  It's just that there are SO many great books out this year!  Right now my favorite is Caminar.
The little blurb on goodreads.com, as you can see compares Dory to Junie B. and Ivy and Bean.  Well....I don't know.  I find JBJ and I and B to be very mean girls.  But I didn't see Dory as being mean...yet, there was the incident with the doctor.  But still!
Now maybe it is just my prejudice against JBJ and I and B, but I think it is a great disservice to Dory to compare her to these girls. Dory's a good kid, I think!  I don't think she will be bullying kids at at school, like JBJ and I and B are sure to do once they hit middle school.  
Wait...look at this video I found when I was looking up the world fantasmagory!  As I watched this film, I wondered if Abby Hanlon was influenced by it when she wrote Dory.  I just emailed her.  I hope she answers!  Great, great book with awesome illustrations.  I loved this book so much!  And while it is a girl main character, I do think that dudes would like this, a lot.