No Tooth, No Quarter! (Step into Reading)
March 3rd, 2013
No Tooth, No Quarter! (Step into Reading)
Illus. in full color. Poor Walter has not only lost a tooth, he’s also managed to lose his lost tooth. His chances of getting his quarter look slim, and the apprentice tooth fairy assigned to pick up the tooth is in hot water in this imaginative romp for young readers.
List Price: $ 3.99
Price: $ 1.10
March 3rd, 2013 at 10:36 am
Save your tooth fairy money,
Adding “Queen Denteena” and the “Decay Prevention Ball” to the basic tooth fairy tale is more than a stretch — it is a strain!
Queen Denteena shouts “Idiot!” twice at the boy in the story because he has lost his tooth — not helpful to those of us teaching 5 – 8 year olds to avoid name-calling. The story ends with the passive tooth fairy appeasing the aggressive Queen Denteena with the help of the boy. Good does not triumph over bad in this story – it simply figures out another way to get along. This results in the tooth fairy’s report card going from all “F’s” to all “A’s.” Everyone has a good time at the Decay Prevention Ball.
There are too many story twists and no satisfying ending. Oh, yes… the boy does receive a quarter.
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|March 3rd, 2013 at 10:54 am
cute story but too much name calling,
I agree …that points out the name calling issue. We see this every where we don’t need it in book.
But it is a cute little story about the tooth fairy.
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|March 3rd, 2013 at 11:43 am
Just awful,
Even before the fairy Queen Denteena called the little boy an IDIOT, I wasn’t impressed with the book. The protagonist is the only character in the story who doesn’t have a name. The plot is pretty dumb. The illustrations are atrocious — the tooth fairy is completely unappealing, and even the little boy in the the book looks like a middle-aged man. I was absolutely shocked to find the word IDIOT not once, but twice. Who on earth writes this stuff? There are much better choices out there for young readers.
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