A lovely creative book with a nice story (my wobbly tooth must not ever never fall out) (My Wobbly Tooth Must Not Ever Never Fall Out - Lauren Child)

Member Name: jenjade

Product:	My Wobbly Tooth Must Not Ever Never Fall Out - Lauren Child
Date:	18/02/09 (118 review reads)
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Advantages: Nice story lovely book, nice drawings lovely characters and everything!

Disadvantages: none for me. Possible expensive if bought in the wrong place

Lauren Child writes books featuring the characters Lola and her brother Charlie. In this book Lola has, a wobbly tooth that she does not want to come out she discusses her concerns about losing her tooth with her older brother Charlie. Charlie explains the concept of the tooth fairy, which helps Lola decide whether her tooth falling out would be a good thing.

My wobbly tooth must not ever never fall out is written by Lauren Child and published by PUFFIN. The book is about 30 pages long. I bought this book as part of a set off the book people the set cost £10 for five books so I actually paid £2 which is amazingly cheap for this type of book. The book we have is even better as there is an audio CD in the back of the book, which contains the story on CD.

This book explores an issue that all children come across during childhood as they develop adult teeth and lose their baby teeth. The book begins with Lola not wanting her tooth to fall out and many other children share their stories about what happened when their first tooth feel out. Unfortunately, these stories do not have happy endings the tooth is swallowed, lost etc then Lola's friend loses a tooth and Charlie asks her what she got for it. This interests Lola as she did not realise you can get stuff for the teeth. Lola's imaginations get the better of her as she imagines all the things she could get in exchange for her tooth. This makes Lola keen to lose her tooth so she can swap it for ... a giraffe Lola tries all sorts of techniques to get the tooth to fall out finally the tooth falls out and Lola loses it! Charlie explains to Lola if she smiles, the tooth fairy will see the gap and she should get something. Lola dreams happy dreams and wakes up to discover not a giraffe but a nice shinny coin under her pillow. She takes the coin and buys a giraffe!

I really like the format and the way Lauren Child writes her books. The books are paperback and a good size to hold. The writing is a good size for young readers and the words the uses are a nice combination between easy to read words and adventurous words. The text is different to other book as it floats around the page and changes directions, which makes it interesting. The book has quite a lot of words but because they are spread over 30 pages, the book seems easy to read for young readers.

Lola and Charlie are interesting characters they are very popular with children. The illustrations are nice and simple to the book can be told just by looking at the pictures as well. I really like these books for young children they seem to have a good balance between tackling difficult issues and being fun to read.
(a small amount of this review is copied from another of my reviews about Lauren Child books.)

Summary: Lovely story that covers issues that relate to children