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Trevor, the last in his class to be a member of the Missing Tooth Club, finally has a wiggly tooth. Each day he proudly shows his friends how it wiggles more and more. But each friend in turn cautions him about the scary ways a loose tooth can be pulled out -- from fingers to string to pliers. Trevor wants his tooth to come out, but he doesn't want someone to yank it out. When Grandma Sally shows his class how to make old-fashioned taffy, Trevor learns there are also fun ways to pull a tooth!
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 Magical Book!, September 25, 2010
By NCYankee
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When I taught fifth grade my classroom was across the hall from a second grade classroom. I had seen Lester Laminack read Trevor's Wiggly-Wobbly Tooth at a North Carolina Reading Association conference and purchased the book as an example of the Want-Struggle-Surprise model of storytelling for my students.
One day one of the neighboring second graders stopped me in the hall and told me that he had a loose tooth that just wouldn't come out. I had a box of Twizzlers licorice candy sticks in my room, so I gave the boy a Twizzler with a copy of Trevor's Wiggly-Wobbly Tooth and told him to take the book and the candy home, read the book with his parents, and only then eat the Twizzler. Sure enough, the next day the boy came back to me with the book and a missing tooth smile! After that day, his second grade teacher sent several children to my classroom to get the "magic book" and a Twizzler to help them with their stubborn loose tooth and it worked every time!
This is a great book on so many levels. It's an obvious choice for the smaller children who are going through losing their first tooth, but as I stated earlier, it's an excellent example of the Want-Struggle-Surprise model of storytelling where the main character wants something very badly, tries several ways unsuccessfully to get what (s)he wants, and finally achieves his/her goal, but in a surprise way.
P.S. If you ever have a chance to hear Lester Laminack read it aloud, I encourage you to do so! The man is amazing!
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Oh Those Wiggly-Wobbly Teeth!, November 14, 2002
By yA customer
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Every kid goes through this, that anxious waiting for the first loose tooth. Lester Laminack captures that eagerness in delightful humor. If you have young children in your life they will be begging, "Please read Trevor again my tooth is loose!" This one is a keeper.
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Trevor, taffy and a treasured tooth, October 17, 2002
By Dorothy Watson
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What fun! If you want children to laugh right out loud, read Trevor's Wiggly-Wobbly Tooth, a story that youngsters, teachers and parents easily relate to. Children get into the story by predicting how Trevor's tooth will be extracted and by telling their own first-tooth stories; expect lots of discussion following the reading. The plot is appealing, the characters are real, and the laughs are genuine. After reading it once, expect to be asked to read this book again and again. It goes into the basket of favorites!
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Wiggly Teeth Can Be Sticky Business, October 10, 2002
By yA customer
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It can be troubling to be the last kid to lose a tooth and that is exactly the position Trevor finds himself in. But finally his tooth begins to wiggle and his friends, who are all members of the missing tooth club, tease him about the ways grown ups may try to PULL it out. What a hoot when his Grandma Sally shows up at school to make taffy. In the perfect predictable style Trevor's tooth comes out in the taffy. But when Grandma Sally tries a piece of taffy ALL HER TEETH COME OUT! Every time I read this one to children there is rousing laughter.
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Enhanced with bright and lively artwork, September 05, 2002
By Midwest Book Review
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Entertainingly written by Lester L. Laminack and enhanced with the bright and lively artwork of Kathi Garry McCord, Trevor's Wiggly-Wobby Tooth is a charming color picture book about a young boy with a wobby tooth about to be lost. His friends warn him of painful ways a tooth can be lost, until Grandma Sally shows him how to cook taffy, which can be used in a much more fun way to pull a tooth. Trevor's Wiggly-Wobby Tooth is highly recommended for young readers as a lighthearted and thoroughly enjoyable children's storybook.
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 A scary, weird book, and not in a good way, August 20, 2002
By loce_the_wizard
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The plot is as thin as stone soup: Trevor has a loose tooth. It gets looser. Family members offer to help him pull it, but his friends have warned him to resist any assistance.
Toward the end of the book, his scary-looking weird Grandmother comes to his school to make taffy. While he is eating taffy, his tooth falls out. So his Grandmother grabs a giant piece of taffy and pulls out her false upper teeth.
Yep, that's the plot. And the illustrations are, if anything, well, just plain bad, culminating in the scenes when the children are eating taffy at school. It looks more like they are being attacked by alien life forms or odd sea creatures. The style is so bizarre, that one wonders if the artist used human models at all.
I figured this book for a mid-80s publication date, but once I finished reading it with my daughter found it was actually published in the late 90s, proving that someone will publish almost everything.
There are more than a hundred other kid's books out there about losing teeth. I suspect most are better than this one. And less scary.
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