title: What Does A Fairy Godmother Do? (The What Does Series) (Volume 2)
author:  Mr David McArthur 
description: About the author David McArthur trained as a Graphic Designer in England and Germany before moving to Canada in 2011. In 2013 he started work on The "What Does" series - a collection of children's books designed to promote an interactive learning experience for all 3 to 5 year olds. David is married to Helen and together they have two willing test subjects/children, Max and Freya. The Inspiration Behind The "What Does" Series As a Graphic Designer David is used to thinking creatively and often wakes up in the middle of the night with crazy ideas (aka inspiration). One such flash of inspiration occurred, not late at night, but as David was driving his son to daycare one Thursday afternoon in early 2013. It was usual for David's son to request a story during the ten minute drive, and these stories tended to be a rehash of previously told yarns. However, on this particular occasion David decided to turn the requested story into a quiz to see how much his son knew (as father's often do). And thus the phrase "What Does A..." was born.
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  **ACKNOWLEDGMENTS**
  
  
  **I** HAD THE IDEA FOR THIS BOOK ONE VERY HOT SUMMER’S DAY IN London. I shoved
  everything else aside and worked on it like a mad working thing. I talked
  about it a lot. I dragged people to dark alleys in the East of London to stare
  at walls and sidewalks. I made some of the same people watch hours of footage
  taken from the driver’s compartment of a Tube train (“Hey! This one is forty-
  five minutes of driving the Northern line tunnels! Grab a snack!”) I have
  depended on the following people in various ways, and they are all owed
  thanks.
  
  
  First, to my agent and friend Kate Schafer Testerman—there is no me without
  Kate. I will always fondly remember how you answered e-mails about this book
  while you were in labor, and I asked you why you were answering e-mails while
  you were in labor, and you said you were bored and between episodes of
  _Buffy_.
  
  
  To Jennifer Besser, my editor, who believed in this book from the word go—I
  don’t think the term “fairy godmother” is 