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K-Gr 4 This story recounts a child's visit to Mali, where she loses her tooth. After she hides it under a calabash, she waits for the African Tooth Fairy to replace it with a chicken. When her patience runs out and she returns to the gourd to retrieve her tooth, a chicken and a rooster emerge. She is delighted. The strength and enduring warmth of her African extended family emerge fully through thoughtful de...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

When Baba Wagué Diakité (author-illustrator of The Hunterman and the Crocodile and other bold, inventive, distinctively African folkloric picture books) took his Oregon-based family to his native Mali, younger daughter Amina had a loose tooth—and she quickly discovered that losing a tooth is an event in Africa, too, with its own rituals: "If you put it under a gourd," her father says, "you will...Log In or Sign Up to Read More