Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth - Hardcover

Alison McGhee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0152049312 ISBN 13: 9780152049317

Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers, 2004

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

ALISON McGHEE is the author of three novels for adults as well as Snap, 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 for The New Yorker, and also the illustrator of a number of picture books. His first, A Fine, Fine School by Sharon Creech, was a New York Times bestseller, as was Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin. He lives in Vermont.

From AudioFile:

First-grade teacher Mrs. Watson is after all the baby teeth she can get. The main character of this story knows--a second-grader told her. Her only choice is to keep her mouth shut to protect her loose tooth. Narrator Rachael Lillis sounds like a girlish first-grader, and the mini-drama also includes fun sound effects. We hear a bus pull up, the eager responses of first-graders, swelling music as the tension builds (will the first-grader open her mouth?), and even an audible tinkle when she loses her tooth. This story, which comes with a humorously illustrated book that children will enjoy, has a broad appeal to young listeners. J.C.G. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0152049312
• ISBN 13: 9780152049317
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 36
• Illustrator: Harry Bliss