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'April and Esme Underhill have never collected a tooth before. Mum and Dad always do it. But tonight it’s their turn. So, equipped with a bag, a coin and a mobile phone, the sisters head for Daniel Dangerfield's house, and a very unusual first tooth visit!' (From the publisher's website.)
Notes
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Starred Book in The Horn Book Magazine 86:5 (September/October 2010).
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This is affiliated with Dr Laurel Cohn's Picture Book Diet because it contains representations of food and/or food practices.
Food depiction - Incidental
Food types - Everyday foods
- Everyday drinks
Food practices - Eating in - meal
- Food serving
Gender - Food serving - female
Signage n/a Positive/negative value n/a Food as sense of place - Domestic
- Urban
- Normalising the fantastical
Setting - Urban landscape
Food as social cohesion - Family meals [dinner]
Food as cultural identity - White characters
Food as character identity n/a Food as language n/a
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Horn Book Fanfare: Our Choices for the Best Books of 2010
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Horn Book Magazine , November/December vol. 86 no. 6 2010; (p. 10-17)
— Review of Mirror 2010 single work picture book ; April Underhill, Tooth Fairy 2010 single work picture book -
Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 54 no. 3 2010; (p. 25)
— Review of April Underhill, Tooth Fairy 2010 single work picture book -
Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Horn Book Magazine , September/October vol. 86 no. 5 2010; (p. 59-60)
— Review of April Underhill, Tooth Fairy 2010 single work picture book -
Images Fly off the Page
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16-17 October 2010; (p. 41)
— Review of April Underhill, Tooth Fairy 2010 single work picture book ; My Uncle's Donkey 2010 single work picture book ; Mirror 2010 single work picture book -
Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies :Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 25 no. 3 2010; (p. 24-25)
— Review of April Underhill, Tooth Fairy 2010 single work picture book
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Under Age
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 13 June 2010; (p. 21)
— Review of April Underhill, Tooth Fairy 2010 single work picture book -
Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , May/June vol. 89 no. 8 2010; (p. 18)
— Review of April Underhill, Tooth Fairy 2010 single work picture book -
Winning Ways
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 3 July 2010; (p. 30)
— Review of The Boy and the Toy 2010 single work picture book ; La Citta 2009 single work picture book ; April Underhill, Tooth Fairy 2010 single work picture book ; Queen Victoria's Underpants 2010 single work picture book -
Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies :Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 25 no. 3 2010; (p. 24-25)
— Review of April Underhill, Tooth Fairy 2010 single work picture book -
Images Fly off the Page
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16-17 October 2010; (p. 41)
— Review of April Underhill, Tooth Fairy 2010 single work picture book ; My Uncle's Donkey 2010 single work picture book ; Mirror 2010 single work picture book
Awards
- 2011 honor book Charlotte Zolotow Award
- 2011 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Children's Fiction
- 2011 shortlisted Kate Greenaway Medal
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