Tooth Tales from Around the World

By Marlene Targ Brill

Book Overview

What do you do when you lose a tooth? Do you try to exchange it with a beaver for one of his? Do you save it for the Tooth Mouse, or is that the Tooth Fairy? This magically illustrated book shows how children from various cultures and 17 different countries celebrate this rite of passage.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881063991
• ISBN13: 9780881063998
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 5 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 4

Customer Reviews

interesting history of the tooth fairy

I found this book fun to read because it gave a nonfiction history of the tooth fairy that also included many tooth traditions. I disagree that this book was not a narrative. Quite the reverse, TOOTH TALES had a running story line while the other tooth book mentioned provided a single caption per picture per site around the world. These are two different books that offer two different versions of tooth tradition. I do agree that the title TOOTH TALES FROM AROUND THE WORLD is misleading, but I didn't find this book to be about witchcraft, which seems to be the other reviewers realk concern.