Early Chapter Book: Fantasy
Age Appropriateness: primary
Media: Carbon pencil, colored pencil and watercolors
Review: This book is about how Amanda the pig has a loose tooth and spends all day at school wiggling her tooth and showing her loose tooth to everyone she sees at school. When she gets home her dad tells her that he should pull the tooth. Amanda does not want to pull her tooth because she is afraid of how much it might hurt and how much it might bleed. Amanda decides to just let her tooth fall out naturally on her own. One day she gets home from school and her dad asks her where her loose tooth is because it is not in her mouth anymore. Amanda is panicked because she cannot find her tooth and that if she does not find her tooth the Tooth Fairy will not come. After a day of looking for her tooth and having no luck she goes to bed and her tooth falls out of her bunnies ear and the next morning she finds money and a note from the Tooth Fairy under her pillow.
Critique: This is a good early chapter fantasy book because not only does it have chapters but Amanda the pig looses her tooth, talks, goes to school, and lives in a house instead of a barn. All of these things could not and do not happen in real life. The author does a great job at making the book seem real and seem like it could happen in real life.