I Lost My Tooth (level 1) (Hello Reader)

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What Do I Do If I Lost My Tooth?.......2000-07-20

A delightful story which displays problem solving strategies when a puppy is faced with the dilemma of how to let the Tooth Fairy know he's lost his tooth.

Where the Trail Grows Faint: A Year in the Life of a Therapy Dog Team (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize)

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My Sincere Thanks to Lynne Hugo
Thought-provoking, funny, helpful: a winner of a book.
A book for dog & nature lovers.
Great book!
Good reading, but not what I expected

Where the Trail Grows Faint: A Year in the Life of a Therapy Dog Team (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize)
Lynne Hugo
Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 080322432X

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"This is Hannah," Lynne Hugo introduces her chocolate Labrador retriever to an aged woman in a wheelchair at the Golden View Nursing Home. "Would you like to pat her?"

"I don't know," she responds warily. "Dogs are complicated."

So, of course, is life, especially as the years accumulate and the body declines. In fact, the most painful complications are those that Hugo hopes to ease with Hannah, her exuberant therapy dog. What Hugo receives in return, unexpectedly, is an outpouring of stories as the residents respond to Hannah’s antics and affection. As Hugo’s involvement deepens, she begins to see her own life and her care for her elderly parents in a new perspective. Interweaving the elders’ tales—of old loves and ancient dreams, abandonment and loneliness, and the struggle for dignity—with her own family’s story, she creates a richly textured collective portrait of the often-hidden world of the aged. At the same time, she crafts an eloquent meditation on the fundamental human need to nurture and remain connected to other people, to animals, and to the natural world.

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My Sincere Thanks to Lynne Hugo.......2006-08-19

I am grateful to Lynne Hugo for her heartwarming and insightful book. She encouraged me to continue to visit nursing homes and Alzheimer patients with my toy poodle, Lucy, even though she is not trained to perfection. Lucy brings joy to residents and care providers. God has presented me with the opportunity to share my dog and I am proud to serve Him in this way.

Thought-provoking, funny, helpful: a winner of a book........2006-03-21

I can see why this book won a national writing prize. What a sheer pleasure to read. It's thoughtful, deeply considered and the language sparkles as the author deals with terribly difficult issues but helps us through them by injecting literally hilarious episodes at just the right moments. Marley and Me has nothing funnier than sections of this book. My dog and I are Delta Society volunteers, and I, too, have aging parents. Much of this helped me think about my own life as well as my parents' situations, and I'm really grateful that a friend recommended this book. Now I'm passing the favor on and giving this my most enthusiastic endorsement.

A book for dog & nature lovers. .......2005-08-16

An enjoyable book! I was moved emotionally by the connections of the dog therapy team, the residents they visited, and the nature around them. Nice symbolism showing how human life events parallel changes in nature.

Great book!.......2005-08-15

I throughly enjoyed reading "Where the Trail Grows Faint: A Year in the Life of a Therapy Dog Team" by Lynne Hugo. Lynne Hugo is masterful at blending the story of Hannah, her beautiful chocolate lab therapy dog, with the lives of the people who are in the nursing home, along with the lives of her own aging parents. Ms. Hugo has a beautiful way with words; her prose creates atmosphere and feeling....so much so that at the conclusion of the book, I immediately went to visit my own aging mother-in-law, who is in an assisted living facility. This book was clearly written from the heart!

Good reading, but not what I expected.......2005-08-10

I absolutely loved the first chapter. After reading it, I come to the conclusion it wasn't what I expected, though. Oh yes, it is definitely good reading.. but the reviews mislead me to think it was more about the dog than it was. If I had to sum it up, it was more about the woman and her feelings toward her own aging parents and many times comparing the experiences in a nursing home to how she feels about taking care of her own parents. Some of the things mentioned about the dog scared me... I can't count how many times she said that the dog forgot all its obedience training in the home. It would more often be off-leash, run up to residents... even pushing a person in a wheelchair backwards with its jump to the lap. She mentioned tossing balls and having the residents toss balls for the dog. Oftentimes the dog decided when it wanted to jump up on a bed with a resident. Everyone was giving the dog treats (which I think I read recently that one of the Therapy Orgs says no to treats *on the job*) I am sure there were a lot of good behavior that she just left out of the book... but if my own dog did these things, I would be re-thinking letting her work in a nursing home environment.

I did enjoy reading the book (it was colorful and eloquent), but was disappointed it wasn't what I thought it was. The one review said, "she includes all the extra techniques she figured out in the field to make them a better, more effective team." No, it did not. The only thing I came away with was that she needed to refine what she carries in her sack each time she comes to the home... a fuzzy ball, a container for the dog to drink out of, etc.

I do recommend reading the book, to get an insight on how one person *got involved* with the residents, but don't get it if you think it will alert you to some techniques to be a better team.

A Visit from the Tooth Fairy (Blue's Clues (8x8))

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Joyful Story About a Loose Tooth
A Colorful, Whimsical Book

A Visit from the Tooth Fairy (Blue's Clues (8x8))
Sarah Albee
Manufacturer: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0689862717

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Blue has a loose tooth! She's excited, and she keeps wiggling her tooth until one day...it falls out! Blue eagerly puts it under her pillow for the Tooth Fairy. But will the Tooth Fairy visit Blue? Read along and find out!

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Joyful Story About a Loose Tooth.......2006-09-26

"A Visit from the Tooth Fairy" is the fifteenth book in a series of "Blue's Clues" books. In this story, Blue has a loose tooth and is excited about the tooth fairy.

This book features a relatively new format in which all of the dogs talk, even without Blue's Room. Still, it's a nice fun story and the new format works well. In Blue's Class, Blue's teacher Miss Marigold has everyone draw pictures of what they think the tooth fairy looks like. Later, Blue has lots of fun wiggling her tooth, even in the bath. When it finally comes out, Blue gets a special surprise.

The illustrations are bright and fun, completely filling every page. And readers get a look inside Blue's imagination. This will be fun for any fan of the series, or any kid that might have their first loose tooth.

A Colorful, Whimsical Book.......2005-09-01

Blue has a loose tooth! She's excited and she keeps wiggling her tooth until one day...it falls out! Blue eagerly puts it under her pillow for the Tooth Fairy. What will the Tooth Fairy bring Blue?

This colorful story features Joe, Green Puppy, Periwinkle, Purple Kangaroo, Magenta, and Miss Marigold (Blue's teacher) as Blue wiggles her loose tooth and proudly shows it off to her friends.

This is a whimsical story that shows a brave Blue losing a tooth and then receiving a visit (and present) from the Tooth Fairy. It's quite colorful, and features actual photographs of Joe. It seems geared toward older children as far as reading level, especially with the smaller font and longer sentences and paragraphs.

If you're looking for a book to take the fear out of losing a tooth, this may help. However, if you want to introduce a child to the concept of going to the dentist and what that entails, you're better off getting Dora the Explorer's Show Me Your Smile! A Visit to the Dentist.

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Like Her Writing Better Than The Tale
Vivid details, ineffective plot
Better on the second read
another vote for pretentious and imitative
A great read!

Teeth of the Dog
Jill Ciment
Manufacturer: Crown
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Binding: Hardcover

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Half a Life

ASIN: 0517702029
Release Date: 1999-03-16

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The mythical Melanesian island on which Teeth of the Dog is set is nothing if not lively. A Third World hash of shantytowns, strip clubs, bored hustlers, and uncertain electricity, Vanduu is abuzz not only with native lore and jarringly inescapable disco music but also with the unsettling palpitations of intrigue. In her fourth novel, Jill Ciment deftly weaves a tale of love and suspense into her colorful rendering of Vanduuan life, creating a story as tense as it is atmospheric. American vacationers Thomas and Helene Strauss, finding themselves underwhelmed by island amenities, spend much of the novel's first half glumly acknowledging the faltering trajectory of their marriage. Helene, years younger than her once-eminent anthropologist husband, has dragged him to this tourist-unfriendly backwater to--metaphorically and literally--get a rise out of him, prostate cancer having left him both world-weary and impotent. When Thomas suffers tragedy, and a dissolute American named Adam Finster preys on Helene's discontents, she's pitched into the sprawling and chaotic world of Vanduu with only her wits and Finster's help--perhaps--to save her.

"New world devours old," Finster recalls from Vanduuan lore. "The foam is the mark of its voracious appetite. Teeth of the dog, the natives call it." Moments like these, when Ciment depicts the jostling of cultures, are nearly as much fun as watching Helene try to transmute desperation, deciphering a world she'd rather not have visited. Brisk, lush, and mildly suspenseful, Teeth of the Dog, while something short of a thriller, nonetheless reveals a fascinating world as rich in danger as it is in uncertainty. --Ben Guterson

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The author of the critically hailed Half a Life steps boldly into world-class literary territory with this tightly structured yet richly expansive literary thriller that will call to mind the work of Graham Greene and Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky.

Thomas, a renowned American anthropologist, his much younger wife Helene, and Finster, a young, culturally shipwrecked AMR (American mercantile riffraff), as he's known locally, enact a tense personal drama of love and tragedy against the much larger historical drama of the Melanesian island of Vanduu, a steaming crucible where East and West, fundamentalist piety and free market fire, decay and sterility augur the future of the world.

Helene has lured Thomas to Vanduu in the desperate hope that its tropical splendor can miraculously heal the fracture that has cleaved their lives: Thomas's health is failing, and Helene simply can't accept that she might lose him. Unable to cope with the gulf of loneliness that his illness has opened between them, Helene finds herself growing more and more desperate as they tour this lush, clamorous paradise that turns out to be no paradise at all. And then Finster appears--young, louche, popping up everywhere Thomas and Helene happen to be, dogging Helene like a lovesick puppy. When a tragic mishap caused by their dance of three accidentally takes the life of a Vanduuan child, Helene, separated from both men, becomes a fugitive left to fend for herself on this troubled, surreal, inexplicably foreign speck of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

With a distilled emotional power and prose so tactile you can feel the eroticism and heat on every page, this riveting tale enacts large themes--the inevitable consequences of the hegemony of the American dream, the inexorable loss of a deep, adult love compared to the hopped-up sex-for-sale enticements Finster offers in its place, and a glimpse into what progress, with its spiraling allurements, has truly forfeited.

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Like Her Writing Better Than The Tale.......2001-05-08

Ms. Jill Ciment writes good dialogue, creates a very eccentric, quirky setting, and then populates it with some interesting players. Overall I thought the book was just an average to slightly above average read, but her style of writing surpasses the tale she tells this time around.

The setting for, "Teeth Of A Dog", is not so much a blend of cultures as the wreckage of what would be left after a variety of groups collided. With the cities, villages and the island upon which she sets her story, the population is more of an amalgam than of groups. She creates a place where the most extreme ends of the human spectrum should be set on removing the other, but they all seem to just get along either through necessity or apathy.

The couple of Helene and Thomas would be a bit odd if this had been set somewhere else. Even when the Author gives the background for the start of their relationship it's hard to tell if she is being serious or as outrageous as her island. Thomas is a renowned anthropologist whose fieldwork and studies are as clever as they are bizarre. The specific study the couple originally took together would probably make a great book in itself.

The character of Finster, an American dealing in dubious businesses through a haze of, "mariwana" is eccentric, quirky, and potentially dangerous when his hormones are guiding him. He does have his sympathetic/pathetic moments when the Author has him draw an outline of the woman he lusts after in the sand, and then has him lay next to it respectfully if not reverently.

The book begins rather uncertainly and develops until the circumstances lead to extremes that are so different from the balance of the book they read as if almost separate. Helene's reactions to the events that make her life skid toward madness on this island, that at it's best is a psychotic red light district and theme park was the strongest part of the book. As I mentioned the story was not a thrilling one, but this ladie's writing is excellent, and I look forward to reading more.

Vivid details, ineffective plot.......1999-07-25

"Teeth of the Dog" is vividly written with respect to details of landscape of the out-of-the-way island, but it's finally disappointing. FINSTER, the pot-smoking California guy residing on the primitive Indonesean island, who's living the life of a druggy beach bum and small-time hustler, succeeds in his dream of bedding the confused tourist HELENE STRAUSS, whose sterile marriage to her cancer-stricken, dying husband makes her vulnerable and vaguely available to this weakling seducer. But their budding relationship doesn't add up to much, particularly since Helene never takes Finster very seriously. Moreover, Helene's difficulties as she finds herself wrongly accused of a little native girl's auto-accident death, and her subsequent escape from the island to avoid authorities, never give you the sense of a fully-worked out plot that provides thematic meaning. But, as said, the island detail is effectively rendered, and the novel does convey what it's like on exotic vacation islands of the type of Borneo or Java.

Better on the second read.......1999-06-08

The first time I read Teeth of the Dog, I read it strictly for the plot, which I enjoyed and found very entertaining. But the second time I read it, I understood (I think) what it was trying to say about the contemporary culture everywhere around the globe and I found it deeply disturbing, but quite profound. I also got into the language, which had a strange mixture of high brow and low brow, which ultimately only reinforced the message. I highly recommend this book.

another vote for pretentious and imitative.......1999-04-28

This isn't literary, it's "literary." Ciment writes with one eye on herself in the mirror as the great writer, and it shows in every sentence. The plot limps along and everything that happens is signalled a mile away. If you're surprised by anything, it's your own fortitude that you've kept reading.

A great read!.......1999-04-24

This novel has much to recommend it. I loved the language and the story. Most contemporary fiction leaves me bored and I've taken to not finishing most of the books I start. But Teeth of the Dog was different. I couldn't put it down, and even though I finished it over a week ago, I still think about it. It's been a very long time since a novel did that for me.

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Clifford's Loose Tooth (Big Red Reader)
Wendy Cheyette Lewison , and Norman Bridwell
Manufacturer: Scholastic
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0439332451

Clifford's Loose Tooth: El Diente Flojo de Clifford

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Clifford's Loose Tooth: El Diente Flojo de Clifford

Manufacturer: Scholastic en Espanol
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Binding: Paperback

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Clifford discovers a loose tooth! It wiggles, and wobbles, and worries him. Emily Elizabeth reassures him that it will fall out and be replaced by a bigger tooth. And the tooth fairy will come take away the old tooth and leave a treat in its place. Clifford and his friends decide to help the tooth come out early so Clifford can get his treat sooner. Their suggestions get wilder and wilder: pulling the tooth out, sneezing it out, and chewing lots and lots of bubble gum. But Clifford discovers that sometimes the best things come to those who wait.

My What Sharp Teeth!: Chewing & Biting Problems (My, What Sharp Teeth)

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My What Sharp Teeth!: Chewing & Biting Problems (My, What Sharp Teeth)
September B. Morn
Manufacturer: Pawprince Press
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The ordeal of Oliver Airedale;: Or, To the dogs and back, a satire with teeth in it,

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The ordeal of Oliver Airedale;: Or, To the dogs and back, a satire with teeth in it,
Donald Thompson Carlisle
Manufacturer: Scribner
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007EFLXK

Peppy, Patch, And The Socks (Read-It! Readers)

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Peppy, Patch, And The Socks (Read-It! Readers)

Manufacturer: Picture Window Books
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Scooby-doo Picture Clue #11: Missing Tooth Mystery (Scooby-Doo)

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Scooby-doo Picture Clue #11: Missing Tooth Mystery (Scooby-Doo)
Maria Barbo
Manufacturer: Scholastic Paperbacks
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ASIN: 0439318475

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The Picture Clue books are based on the traditional "rebus Reader" - using a picture as a tool for learning a word. On the sample spread, you can see where a picture is substituted for a word. This gives a young reader a sense of pride that she is "reading" the story. All pictures and vocabulary are on flashcards at the end of the book.Did a monster ((robot)) take the missing ((tooth))? ((Scooby)) and ((Shaggy)) will solve this mystery!

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Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-03

A whole bunch of X-Men nostalgia. Or, how many people in the one house can have the hots for Jean Grey.

Not to mention Magneto - the birth of a really good villain, and the amusing villainy of Unus the Untouchable, the Vanisher, and various other clowns of that nature.

Fun.

So much fun.......2007-02-09

Despite Black and white pages, stories are very well-written.

I don't care about the colors, this book just is great to read.

We can see original X-Men issues.

It is an honor for me to possess this great comic book.

Almost X-Cellent.......2006-09-17

When I first started really reading comic books in the early 1980s, there was a definite distinction when it came to the X-Men. In particular, the heroes featured at the time were the "New X-Men" with such members as Wolverine, Storm, Nightcrawler and Colossus. These were different from the "Old X-Men" of Iceman, Angel, Beast and Marvel Girl; only Cyclops really bridged the gap between the two. A quarter century later, with the rosters changing so much, "Old" and "New" don't have the same meaning, but back then, it did. The Essential Uncanny (or Classic) X-Men chronicles the original group.

For those unfamiliar with the team's origins, it started off as a group of five kids in their late teens attending a private school with the single instructor, Charles Xavier. Professor X, as he was commonly called, was a mutant, gifted with strong psychic powers, especially telepathy. Recognizing that there would be other mutants out there, he founded the school to keep these other superpowered individuals on the straight and narrow and protect the world from less benevolent mutants.

These students were Jean Grey (Marvel Girl), a telekinetic; Warren Worthington (Angel) who had wings; Hank McCoy (Beast) who had incredible agility; Bobby Drake (Iceman) with grand ice-generating powers; and Scott "Slim" Summers (Cyclops) who could shoot destructive beams out of his eyes. Led by Professor X, they would fight various supervillains. More importantly, they would try to fight anti-mutant bigotry.

In the twenty-four issues in this first volume, the X-Men would battle a slew of villains such as the Vanisher, Unus the Untouchable, the Sentinels and Count Nefaria, but by far their greatest enemy was Magneto who was incredibly powerful but also had a contempt for humanity; he wanted to pave the way for the mutants, also known as homo superior. Either solo or with his evil brotherhood, he would be the greatest challenge to the X-Men.

In these early issues, the characters are still not fully defined, with only Cyclops and Professor X having really distinct personalities. For the others, we only get glimmers of who they are. But overall, the stories are pretty decent, if a little Scooby-Doo-esque: if it wasn't for those blasted kids, who knows what villainy could occur. Among the early Marvel comics, this is one of the better ones, even if it is not quite five-star quality yet. If you're an X-Men fan - even a "New" X-Men fan - this is a must read.

Colorless comic?.......2006-05-26

I've never seen comics in black & white before. I was truly disappointed.

X-men Legends!!!.......2005-10-24

This is a great example of Stan lee at his best. along with Jack Kirby Stan "the MAn" Lee created this great world full of real people with real problems. the X-men Being one of the most Downtroted people in the marvel universe, its great for any one who has ever wished to kick some bad guy but and stand up for the little guy.

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