Dory Fantasmagory

Dory is the youngest child in her family and desperately wants her older brother and sister to include her. Left to entertain herself, she fills the summer with an imaginary friend, dog play, monster battles, and other inventions that also exhaust her family.

The story takes the youngest sibling’s inner world seriously while preserving the friction that produces it. It is especially relevant for children whose imagination becomes both a source of resilience and a way of demanding attention. Ivy and Bean finds companionship with a real new neighbor; Dory turns exclusion into an elaborate inner world before her family changes its view.