What's Everybuggy Reading: Sam
Throw Your Tooth on the Roof
by Selby B. Beeler
Houghton Mifflin, 1998
In the story "Dear Tooth Fairy" (p. 28 in this month’s Spider), Dylan has some crazy notions about what the tooth fairy should bring him for his tooth. He didn't dream up all these zany ideas on his own, though—he read books on what the tooth fairy brings kids in other countries.
This book has even more cool information about what kids in other cultures do with their missing teeth. I was surprised to read that some countries don’t even have tooth fairies! In Jamaica, kids don’t want to give their teeth away, so they put them in cans and shake them so the noise will frighten a tooth-stealing calf. And in Kyrgystan, they roll their teeth in bread and feed them to animals!
H’m . . . when Spider lost his sweet tooth, he ran around the whole magazine chasing it. That sounds pretty exhausting, doesn't it? Now that I'm an expert on tooth traditions, I think I'll keep my next lost tooth close to my heart—I'll wear it on a necklace like they do in Chile!
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