Tooth Fairy's First Night.Tooth Fairy's First Night Anne Bowen & Jon Berkeley Jon Berkeley (b.1962) is a Dublin-born illustrator and children's author. He travelled widely in the 1980s, working freelance in London, Sydney and Hong Kong before returning to Dublin in 1992, where he formed a loose coalition known as Baggot Street Central with other leading Carolrhoda/Lerner Publishing Group 241 First Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55401 www.lernerbooks.com 1575057530 $15.95 1-800-328-4929 On her seventh birthday, it's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a for Sally to earn her wings as a tooth fairy fairy, in folklore, one of a variety of supernatural beings endowed with the powers of magic and enchantment. Belief in fairies has existed from earliest times, and literatures all over the world have tales of fairies and their relations with humans. . She knows that the first rule is to never wake a sleeping child The sleeping child (maghrebi arabic : ragued or bou-mergoud) is, according to Maghrebian (especially Moroccan) folk belief, a fetus which has been rendered dormant by black or white magic and may eventually wake up and be born after the normal pregnancy term. . But when she reachers her first assignment, she's led on a treasure hunt filled with clues and hiding places. A good tooth fairy always gets her tooth--but will Sally on her novice assignment get hers? A clever modern fairytale by Ann Bowen, Tooth Fairy's First Night is very nicely illustrated throughout with the skilled artwork of Jon Berkeley. The result is a picturebook masterpiece that would grace any family, school, or community library collection! |
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