Tooth Fairy's First Night

by Anne Bowen, Jon Berkeley (Illustrator)

Overview

Sally has always longed to be a tooth fairy. On her seventh birthday, she is finally going off to get her first tooth, with the most important rule—“You must never wake a sleeping child!” running through her mind. When she reaches the house, she finds the job is not as easy as she’d hoped. A good tooth fairy always gets her tooth—but will Sally get hers? This warm and playful tale about a determined tooth fairy will have children of all ages sleeping with one eye open, hoping to catch their own tooth fairy in the act.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467742320
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/01/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	55 MB
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Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

Anne Bowen is the author of Tooth Fairy’s First Night, which was nominated for the Nevada Young Reader’s Award, the Nebraska Golden Sower Award, and the Georgia Picture Book Award. Her book, What Do Teacher’s Do (after YOU Leave School)? was a CBC Book Award nominee and a Society of School Librarians International Honor Book. She also wrote When You Visit Grandma and Grandpa, A Children’s Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year, and I Know An Old Teacher, which was included in the 100th anniversary edition of the Bank Street College’s Best Children’s Books of the Year.

Anne was a teacher for thirty years. She lives in Ogden, Utah, with her husband.

Editorial Reviews

K-Gr 2-When Sally turns seven, she is given a chance to earn her tooth-fairy wings and follow in the footsteps of her mama, grandma, and great-grandma. With her very own purse, she flies off into the night armed with plenty of advice-to be patient, optimistic, persistent, and, most importantly, never to wake a sleeping child. Her first assignment, however, presents unexpected challenges when, instead of finding a tooth under Miranda Kay's pillow, there is a note designed to test her credibility. She is led on a scavenger hunt from one note to another until, finally, her persistence pays off and she can claim her first success. Playing along with the game, she leaves the child a set of clues to finding her reward. Whimsical watercolor illustrations of the perplexed but determined young tooth fairy perfectly capture the spirit of the story. An imaginative tale with a satisfying ending, and a suitable addition to the tooth-fairy picture-books collection.-Sally R. Dow, Ossining Public Library, NY Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

School Library Journal

A resourceful young tooth fairy on her first mission encounters unexpected difficulties in this charmer. Armed with a satchel and a tiny flashlight, little Sally reaches beneath a sleeping child's pillow and finds, not a tooth, but a note-the first of a series of oblique rhymed clues to the tooth's hiding place. Depicted as a snub-nosed lass in casual clothes, with a shock of blonde hair and big, transparent dragonfly wings, Sally makes an appealing figure in Berkeley's watercolor close-ups, moving from dismay to determination, and flitting from clue to clue with a purposeful air. Recalling her profession's guiding principles: Be patient, Look on the bright side, and Always get your tooth, Sally solves each riddle in turn, and retrieves the tooth at last-leaving a note of her own beneath the pillow, with a clue to where she's hidden the unspecified "surprise." A natural companion for Betsy Jay's view from the other side of the encounter, Jane vs. the Tooth Fairy (2000). (Picture book. 6-8)

Kirkus Reviews