by Michael Finley.
Copyright © 1992 by Michael
A Michael Finley Perennial, read by over 120,000 kids and grown-ups.
Finley. All rights reserved.
Everyone knows about Santa Claus, and how he lives at the North Pole with his elves without any women at all except Mrs. Santa, and makes toys for all the little girls and boys.
And everyone knows about the Easter Bunny, how he lives in the forest with his bunny friends, coloring eggs and weaving baskets from the branches of the yimyam plant, which is now an endangered species.
But what does any of us know, really, about that other major benefactor of kids? I am speaking of course of the Tooth Fairy.
Every time a child loses a tooth, and places it under the pillow at night, the Tooth Fairy turns up. Somehow he gets into our houses, finds his way to our rooms, sneaks the money under our heads -- where he gets it isn't our concern -- and then sneaks away without so much as a never-you-mind.
Obviously there is much that is not generally known about this friend to mankind, and it is the purpose of this book to set the record straight, and to recognize this much-overlooked figure.
Who is the tooth fairy? A better question would be, Who are the tooth fairies?, for in fact there are over 10,000 registered tooth fairies in the world, and an additional number of gypsy tooth fairies, thought to be in excess of 5,000, operating without any kind of certification.
I'll bet you didn't know that, gentle reader.
But the original tooth fairy was not always a tooth fairy. In fact, he spent the first 300 years of his career not giving gifts to kids, but breaking into people's houses and stealing teeth they already had in their mouths, and making jewelry from them that he sold at a booth on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. Fellow name of "Cal."
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