Throw Your Tooth on the Roof
Tooth Traditions From Around the World
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · September 24, 2001
What do you do when you lose a tooth?
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- Who it’s for
- A familiar childhood milestone opens onto a cheerful variety of tooth-losing customs around the globe.
- Themes
- Tooth-loss traditions across cultures, Losing a tooth as a milestone
- Genres
- Customs & Traditions, Diversity & Culture, Geography for Kids
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What do you do when you lose a tooth? Delightful descriptions and cheerful art celebrate the surprising things that children do around the world when they lose a tooth. When you lose a tooth, do you put it under your pillow and wait for the tooth fairy? In Botswana, children throw their teeth onto the roof. In Afghanistan they drop their teeth down mouse holes.
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From Egypt to Venezuela, Spain to Korea losing a tooth is an exciting milestone that’s honored with unique traditions. Discover the variety of customs from every corner of the globe in this charming picture book by Selby B. Beeler with whimsical illustrations by G. Brian Karas.
Teeth Around the World
A familiar childhood milestone opens onto a cheerful variety of tooth-losing customs around the globe.
Come here for
- Unexpected ways children mark a lost tooth
- A lighthearted glimpse of traditions from many countries
Expect
- Delightful descriptions and whimsical illustrations
- A picture book celebrating a small milestone with global customs
Where it sits
| Customs & Traditions | 87% |
|---|---|
| Diversity & Culture | 62% |
| Geography for Kids | 45% |
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Publisher categories
- Health & Daily Life
- Africa for Kids
- Asia for Kids
- Caribbean & Latin America
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- Europe for Young Readers
- The Middle East
- Geography for Kids
- Archaeology for Kids
- Authors
- Selby Beeler
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- September 24, 2001
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Tooth-loss traditions across cultures · Losing a tooth as a milestone
- Reading lane
- Health & Daily Life