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|title=Wibble Wobble, My Loose Tooth
|author=Miriam Moss and Joanna Mockler
|reviewer=Ruth Ng
|genre=For Sharing
|rating=4.5
|buy=Yes
|borrow=Yes
|isbn=978-1408319567
|pages=32
|publisher=Orchard
|date=August 2012
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|website=http://www.miriammoss.com/
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|summary=Both sweet and funny, this is a lovely book to share with any little ones feeling nervous about the prospect of wobbly teeth!
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I don't know about your family, but my five year old is desperate for a wobbly tooth!  She has already written to the tooth fairy several times and they've built up quite a relationship with discussions about why no money is left if there are no teeth, what the fairies do with all those teeth and it is certainly a hot topic of conversation in our house as we receive regular updates about whose tooth came out at school!  Indeed, the other day her best friend lost his first tooth and when I told my daughter about this she burst into tears claiming, dramatically, that her teeth would ''never'' fall out and she'd never get any big teeth!  Well, as you can probably imagine, any story about wobbly teeth was going to go down well in our house and this is certainly a good one!

William, much like my little girl, is desperate for a wobbly tooth.  His friends at school all seem to be losing their teeth in interesting ways and William is keen to get his special silver coin from the tooth fairy.  Finally, after a long wait, William feels one of his teeth move.  And then he is forever pushing it, pulling it, jiggling it and joggling it!  It gets wobblier and wobblier until finally, out it pops at school.  His teacher wraps it in a tissue and puts it safely on top of the filing cabinet.  But, later on when one of the children needs a tissue...yes, you've guessed it, the one with William's tooth gets used!  There's a wobbly moment at the end of the day when the tooth is found to be missing, but don't worry, everything works out very well in the end, and a celebratory ice cream with chewy bits in brings even more delight to William!

This story covers most of the things you'd want to know about wobbly teeth, how it might feel to have one, and even that awkward moment you can get when the tooth flips over and gets stuck that way, hanging by the most ridiculously thin thread!  I like the excitement it creates about losing your baby teeth, and I did laugh over the places the children all put their teeth to keep them safe if they come out at school including sticking it to the Velcro on a trainer and one which somehow gets lost up someone's nose!  The only thing we noticed that was missing was any mention of blood.  My daughter has noted that those who have lost teeth at school have also experienced some blood loss.  This may seem like a minor issue but to a five year old it's ''very'' important, presumably since blood makes any kind of injury or experience that bit more serious and therefore requiring more adult attention than a bump on the knee would get!

The pictures are quite simply drawn but they're rather sweet and very colourful.  The school children are all rather appealing, and I liked that it's a very mixed race class.  It's a lovely story to share with those from about four years and older, since they're the ones about to go through the whole tooth fairy process, though toddlers would certainly enjoy the story too as it's easy to follow and very fun.

You might also enjoy [[Scritch Scratch We Have Nits by Miriam Moss and Delphine Durand]]

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