Customer Reviews

How Many Teeth? (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1)

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
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This book is an excellent educational tool. I am a public health dental hygienist and I use this book in grades K-2. The bright pictures and clever rhymes make it very entertaining for children. It is a great way to teach kids about their mouths and oral health!

When my 5 year old lost his first tooth, he was asking all sorts of questions: WHY did I lose a tooth, WHEN will I lose more....

Thi sbook answers those questions. It has a chart which looks inside the gums to show a new tooth pushing out the old. The book alternates between a story line and a poem. At the end it gets funny with a boy not being able to sing the rhyme like the others because he lost 2 teeth and he "thounds funny".

I let my son's reactions rate books: this is a 5.

My five year old is so excited about losing her teeth and getting in her "grown up teeth" that I thought she'd enjoy this little book. She definitely did and wanted to read it to everyone! Her kindergarten class surely enjoyed it.

I got this book for my 5 year old daugter to prepare her for the toothfairy and to show her what it is all about with teeth. This is well written and illustrated, even a 3 year old would get a great deal from this book, but a 5 or 6 year old would understand the more technical things like the picture of what a tooth looks like from the inside. It encourages good toothcare for kids and my daugter is beginning to read it by herself now.
We can only recommend this book (the entire series is great!!)

This was a wonderful factual book about teeth to explain the need to lose baby teeth to usher in the permanent grown-up teeth. For a cerebral kid like mine, this was a wonderful way to introduce the idea, as he was the first one among his friends to lose his teeth.

This book was just what I needed for my child when she got her first loose tooth. We read this multiple times and she enjoyed looking at the illustrations on why we have loose teeth and what happens when they fall out. She wasn't upset or scared with the whole concept.

Now the only thing I did not like about the book was the manner in which the children were illustrated. They aren't very cute or interesting to look and some might be a bit scary. My child didn't mind, but I gave this book as a present to another child and she didn't want to even look at it because the children were "ugly". (I'm not saying that all children should be pretty or cute in stories, but I'm giving the overall initial impression by young readers).

So if they children were illustrated a little "friendlier" I would have given it 5 stars. I think it will depend on the individual reader as to whether that will be too much of a distraction.

This book has nice sections of text, teaching why babies don't need teeth, and what people use their teeth for, and how many teeth children need, and how teeth fall out, and why to care for our teeth. In between the text sections are adorable rhyming sections (my favorite part of the book). This book's content is limited, really, to counting teeth. But the rhyming parts are irresistible.

For a more comprehensive look at teeth, their jobs, and how to care for them (plus amazingly good illustrations), I receommend Edward Miller's "The Tooth Book". Why not get both?