{"id":4699,"date":"2018-08-15T12:03:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T18:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4699"},"modified":"2018-08-15T12:03:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T18:03:02","slug":"josies-lost-tooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4699","title":{"rendered":"Josie’s Lost Tooth<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Josie checked for a loose tooth every night.
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\nI am always interested in seeing the latest picture book release from Jennifer K. Mann<\/a><\/strong>. Her stories possess such respect for the inner lives of children, and she captures domestic and school-related dramas so perfectly. (Here’s<\/a><\/strong> my 2016 7-Imp interview with her, if her books are new to you, by chance, and you want to explore.) Her newest picture book, Josie’s Lost Tooth<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (Candlewick), is no exception. It will be on shelves next month. Here’s a quick peek inside. <\/p>\n

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Now, let’s just admit that this whole tooth-losing part of childhood is hard. And CREEPY. (Is it just me? I always have dreams my teeth are falling out, so it may be just me.) The whole experience can be rife with drama and pain and tears \u2014 but also some thrills, on account of the tooth fairy herself. Whether or not you had a tooth fairy as a child and\/or whether or not you have children now and engage in the whole tooth-fairy thing<\/em>, Mann’s book resonates. This is the story of Josie, whose baby teeth stubbornly remain. She really wants to lose a tooth, and she really wants a coin from the Tooth Fairy. When it finally happens for her, as the result of a stumble on the playground at school, she is unable to locate the tooth that dislodged itself from her gum. What can she put under her pillow now? <\/p>\n

She decides to leave a note for the toothy fairy \u2014 and she gets one in return. Plus, a surprise for both herself and her friend at school. This is a story of vulnerability, friendship, mystery \u2014 and maybe a little bit of wanting to grow up. Oh, and SHARK TEETH. Bonus!<\/p>\n

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“While Josie was in the nurse’s office, Richard tried to cheer her up. …”<\/em>
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JOSIE’S LOST TOOTH. Copyright \u00a9 2018 by Jennifer K. Mann. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Josie checked for a loose tooth every night.But nothing ever moved, not even a bit.”(Click to enlarge spread)   I am always interested in seeing the latest picture book release from Jennifer K. Mann. Her stories possess such respect for the inner lives of children, and she captures domestic and school-related dramas so perfectly. (Here’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}