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 Seussical, Unpretentious, and Sweet, August 26, 2012
By Miz Anniet
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A lack of diversity is an unsettling fact in the children's book world. "The Tooth Fairy Needs Your Teeth!" is one of few books I picked up for the Kindle, or in the grand scheme of things, any bookstore, depicting people of color within the story. These little fairies and the children come in every shape, size, gender, and color. It is a bold move to include race as a normality, never a question or part of the storyline. An Asian boy receives a visit from the tooth fairy on one page, and for that, I commend the author/illustrator for making us all believe, if we were small, the tooth fairy visited kids who look like us, not just the white children portrayed in the majority of television cartoons and children's literature.
The story unfolds with babies progressing to elementary age children asking their mothers, "Why do tooth fairies need my teeth?" Marc Hopin succeeds in a magnificent rhyming tale that sees positive clarity from every dimension. Against the ever expanding library of staples like "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day," a flop when i read it to them, my students reacted to every line with happiness. If this were a soap opera, you would tune in daily to see what happens next, if you were an elementary age child. Adults may tire of reading this too often. Children will find it inescapable, undoubtedly because they too want to know why fairies need their baby teeth. The story's words are neither big nor too small for a child's intellect.
The solid marketing genius in this book is exhibited in that it was illustrated for children. Books we use in my classroom were made by adults at corporate publishing houses for adults to buy but last of all things, for our children to be content reading them. These drawings are rather Seussical by abandoning the well worn pencil illustrations we see in every children's book for quirky drawings seen through the eyes of a child. Clearly, the target audience was reached when a female first grader asked, "Why is the fairy's wand a star? Do fairies have square wands?" Children like this book because they believe they could, with a lot of imaginary adult skill, have written and drawn every page. The boys enjoyed seeing male tooth fairies in striped business suits like their fathers wore and the fairy with the yellow hard hat.
The message is, no, "The Tooth Fairy Needs Your Teeth!" won't please adults, for it doesn't matter. Unlikely as one might think, it is actually the epitome of what a children's book should be like: a mythological, how the body works, tooth fairy vehicle published with little boys and girls in mind.
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 Terrible Illustration!!, July 14, 2012
By Snj927
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The story is very cute and grabs my 6 year olds attention. The pictures and artwork on the other hand are terrible. A six year old likes more detailed pictures to enhance their imagination. These sloppy pictures look like a 2 year old painted them. That being said my daughter did like the story since she has been asking that question.. "..what does the tooth fairy do with my teeth?" Great story but disappointed in the artwork.
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