Synopses & Reviews
Sure, first-grade teacher Mrs. Watson may look human, but it is a known and proven fact that she is actually a three-hundred-year-old alien who steals baby teeth from her students.
Thank goodness for a second grader's warning, because this little first grader has a secret: She has a loose tooth! Her first! How will she make it through an entire year without opening her mouth?
Told with the same gentle wit as in their first irresistible collaboration, Countdown to Kindergarten, this lighthearted take on losing one's first tooth will have children and parents laughing aloud.
Review
"The children are cartoon-like in their representations, but they help move the comic adventure along with emotional effectiveness as they engage in typical behavior. Someone else's anxiety can be fun to see and may lessen one's own. The final triumphant smile warms the heart." Children's Literature
Review
"McGhee has the pulse of this blue-ribbon worrier who is the prey of the school gossip and manipulator. Bliss's watercolor and black-ink illustrations feature distinctive, large-eyed classmates and a number of humorous toothy references on the walls in the hall and in the classroom." School Library Journal
Synopsis
The girl from
Countdown to Kindergarten is back--it's a new school year and she has a scary new problem
Synopsis
The girl from
Countdown to Kindergarten is entering first grade--and has a scary new problem
About the Author
Sure, first-grade teacher Mrs. Watson may
lookhuman, but it is a known and proven fact that she is actually a three-hundred-year-old alien who steals baby teeth from her students.
Thank goodness for a second grader's warning, because this little first grader has a secret: She has a loose tooth! Her first! How will she make it through an entire year without opening her mouth?
Told with the same gentle wit as in their first irresistible collaboration,Countdown to Kindergarten, this lighthearted take on losing one's first tooth will have children and parents laughing aloud.
The girl fromCountdown to Kindergartenis back--it's a new school year and she has a scary new problem
ALISON McGHEEis the author of three novels for adults as well asSnap,a teen novel.Countdown to Kindergarten,her first book for children, won the Minnesota Book Award. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
HARRY BLISS is an award-winning cartoonist and cover artist forThe New Yorker, and also the illustrator of a number of picture books. His first,A Fine, Fine Schoolby Sharon Creech, was aNew York Timesbestseller, as wasDiary of a Wormby Doreen Cronin. He lives in Vermont.