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Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions from Around the World

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What do you do when you lose a tooth? Do you put it under your pillow and wait for the tooth fairy? Not if you live in Botswana! In Botswana, children throw their teeth onto the roof. In Afghanistan they drop their teeth down mouse holes, and in Egypt they fling their teeth at the sun! Go back and forth around the globe and discover the surprising things children do when they lose a tooth. Selby B. Beeler spent years collecting traditions from each corner of the globe for this whimsical book, and illustrator G. Brian Karas adds to the fun, filling each page with humorous detail. He perfectly captures the excitement and pride that children experience when a tooth falls out.

This title has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades 2-3, Informational Texts)

Eat your heart out, tooth fairy. Consistent with the informal research of the creator, the world is stuffed with other, equally fascinating myths and traditions about what happens, or will have to 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 are 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 in all places the world.) Playful illustrations by G. Brian Karas include a world map, plus a variety of fun depictions of the world’s dentally challenged junior inhabitants. (Ages 4 to 8) –Richard Farr

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