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Franklin And The Tooth Fairy

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This book is all about feeling grown up. When Franklin's friend Bear has a loose tooth he tells Franklin. Bear is excited because he wants the Tooth Fairy to leave him a present. Franklin feels sad because he doesn't have any teeth and he wants a present too. Franklin's parents tell him that turtles don't need any teeth. Franklin puts a pretend turtle tooth under his shell when he goes to sleep to fool the Tooth Fairy so she can bring him a present. But he gets a note saying "nice try Franklin". Franklin is sad but in the end he learns that growing up is more than just about losing teeth.

I think this book is very funny because it tells about growing up. I would give it to all my firnds and everybody in the world.

Amanda Rae Cunningham

Franklin is upset when the tooth fairy visits his friends but not him. The book discribes a "rite of passage" for Franklin's deliema, not a tooth fairy story relating to an actual child's experience.

As a first grade teacher, my children have enjoyed this book.

Well, personally I really enjoyed this book. I liked how it expressed you don't have to be the exact same as everyone else in this world. Even being a little different from someone else changes everything. In the beginning of the story. Franklin and his friend Bear, were eating their lunch and Bear's tooth fell out. Then Franklin says O NO! Bear you lost your tooth, and Bear said I know its normal for me. Then Franklin went home and found a small rock that looked like a tooth. He wrote a letter asking for something. Well it turns out in the morning there was another note saying, I am sorry but you're a turtle, and turtle's don't have teeth. So, when he went to have breakfast his parents gave him a present for being who he was and that he was growing into a nice young turtle

At first my thoughts of this book was that it wasn't that good but now I think of it more fondly.

Franklin and his innocence of not knowing of the tooth fairy because turtle do not have teeth. His friend Bear looses his first tooth to make room for his growing up teeth. To Franklin this is a sign that Bear is growing up. So if Franklin does not have teeth how can he ever grow up. That is the dilemma that Franklin asks his parents.

There were some different and creative tooth fairies in this book I only got the money tooth fairy but apparently for some of Franklin's received gifts or money. So I guess you never know what tooth fairy your going to get as a child but good to know the tooth fairy has expanded her realms of gifts.

Now that I think of the book after a couple of days there is a fondness to it that think children will find too.

Franklin and The Tooth Fairy is a cute story for early readers about how his best friend Bear lost his first tooth. Franklin found it very unfair that he didn't have any teeth, so he would never get a visit from the tooth fairy and therefore he would never get a present from her either. That night he tried to trick the tooth fairy into believing a small white rock was his baby tooth, but the tooth fairy left a note saying she could not be tricked. Franklin's parents helped him to see that being different was not always a bad thing!

I will always be a Franklin fan and this is no exception. I love Franklin and the wisdom shared from his tales. I recommend you share the story with your first or second grader too!!

By Kerri J. Busteed
Author of Will's First Hunt Will's First Hunt

Well, personally I really enjoyed this book. I liked how it expressed you don't have to be the exact same as everyone else in this world. Even being a little different from someone else changes everything. In the beginning of the story. Franklin and his friend Bear, were eating their lunch and Bear's tooth fell out. Then Franklin says O NO! Bear you lost your tooth, and Bear said I know its normal for me. Then Franklin went home and found a small rock that looked like a tooth. He wrote a letter asking for something. Well it turns out in the morning there was another note saying, I am sorry but you're a turtle, and turtle's don't have teeth. So, when he went to have breakfast his parents gave him a present for being who he was and that he is growing up to be a nice young turtle.

Franklin doesn't understand why turtles don't have teeth. He thinks that is one way to know you are growing. Plus you get a present. He evens tries to give the tooth fairy a fake tooth. In the episode on tv they take Franklin for a checkup to show that he is growing. In the book, he gets a present.

The author of the book Franklin And The Tooth Fairy are Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark. The protagonist was Franklin and the antagonist was no one. The thing that I like most was the Tooth Fairy because she was very gorgeous. My favorite Tooth Fairy was the fox because of the blue fancy dress. There was nothing I didn't like in the book.

Turtles Try to Trick Tooth Fairy
By Christopher Davis and Daddy

A young turtle, Franklin, conspired with his parents to trick the tooth fairy to leaving him a present without a tooth. According to reports, Franklin was sad because he was different from his friends: they had teeth but he did not. This caused him sadness because when they would lose their baby teeth the tooth fairy would bring them presents and since he had no teeth to lose he had no presents to look forward to, making him sad. He convinced his parents to help him write a note to leave with a small rock, saying that the rock was a turtle tooth. Fortunately the tooth fairy was not deceived. Franklin's parents gave him a book to celebrate his growing up to relieve his sadness. At last report Franklin no longer worries about being different from his friends.

Once again Brenda Clark has provided beautiful illustrations for Paulette Bourgeois ethically questionable, and to me offensive, text. Here, from greed Franklin conspires to deceive others for personal gain and gets help from his parents rather than gentle correction. This is part of a pattern that I have found in her books, of subtle justification of dishonesty, deliberate deception and lying generally presented to children who have no ability to recognize the evil of such behavior. Since often these books are read without parents this type of behavior needs to be identified as explicitly unethical. The problem is exacerbated by Franklin being a young roll model: kids like and want to be like Franklin. These books are very dangerous. Beware!!!!!