- Hardcover: 32 pages
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin; None edition (Aug 31 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0395891086
- ISBN-13: 978-0395891087
- Product Dimensions: 26.5 x 27.3 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 522 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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#66,210 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #37 in Books > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > Mythology > Folklore
- #38 in Books > Children's Books > People & Places > Social Science > Customs, Traditions, Anthropology
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Eat your heart out, tooth fairy. According to the informal research of the author, the world is full of other, equally fascinating myths and traditions about what happens, or should be done, when those milk choppers part company with childish gums. If you come from Chile or Costa Rica, your parents will have the tooth made into a charm. If you're Venezuelan, you put the tooth under your pillow and hope that a mouse brings you money. (Oddly enough, mice, milk teeth, and money are associated all over the world.) Playful illustrations by G. Brian Karas include a world map, plus lots of fun depictions of the world's dentally challenged junior inhabitants. (Ages 4 to 8) --Richard Farr
From Publishers Weekly
In Beeler's first book, children from familiar and remote countries on each continent explain what they do when they lose a tooth. The Tooth Fairy surfaces on several occasions; but for kids from a number of countries, she's replaced by a mouse, a squirrel or another critter. In other traditions, parents fashion jewelry from baby teeth, children wrap a tooth in a piece of food and feed it to an animal or throw their teeth on the roof. Since Beeler organizes her material by geographic region, some spreads featuring similar traditions of neighboring countries become redundant (e.g., Colombia, "I put my tooth under my pillow and wait for a mouse called El Raton Miguelito to take my tooth and leave money in its place," followed by Venezuela, "I put my tooth under my pillow. While I am asleep, a mouse will take the tooth and bring me some coins"). But the variety of customs across the globe compensates for any occasional similarities. Karas's (The Windy Day) cheerful cartoon art shows round-faced kids?many proudly displaying a gap in their smiles?dressed in native garb and often standing near an example of their local architecture. This book will be an eye-opener for young Americans who may have assumed that the Tooth Fairy holds a worldwide visa. Ages 4-8.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Exactlly What We Wanted,
By Ian (Stony Plain, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions From Around the World (Hardcover)
So we had found this book at an independent store and then when we went back to get it, it was gone. But we found it here and it was exactly what we wanted and needed!
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Love it!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions from Around the World (Paperback)
We found this book in our dentist's office and it kept my kids occupied with no thought of their about-to-happen visit. What a stroke of brilliance to have this in the waiting room. When we left, I saw an older man reading it and he had a big smile on his face. My dentist said she's been giving a copy to graduating dental students ... of course. My cousin's graduating from dental school next spring, so I'm glad to have THAT gift problem solved. Besides, it's fun to read. Who would have thought that tooth-losing traditions would be different all over the world? My kids started asking what else is the same but different with kids in other countries--good question.
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I loved it.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions From Around the World (Hardcover)
I am a second year dental hygiene student and have recently been reading many tooth fairy tales. I loved the way the author showed the similarities as well as the differences of the world tooth traditions. I brought the book into our college clinic; those that had the chance to read the book loved all the different stories as well. Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions from Around the World, by Selby B. Beeler, was a joy to read.
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