Loose Tooth! (Freckleface Strawberry Series)

by Julianne Moore, Leuyen Pham (Illustrator)

Overview

Academy Award–winning actress and New York Times bestselling author Julianne Moore brings us more adventures from Freckleface Strawberry! Everyone’s favorite red-haired seven-year-old has a loose tooth! And if it comes out at school, she gets a special prize from the nurse. But what if it doesn’t budge before the bell rings? Kids who are at the stage of wiggly teeth will laugh along as they read this light and funny story about Freckleface’s pursuit of the ultimate loose-tooth prize.
 
With predictable sentence patterns, simple words, frequent repetition, and bright, colorful illustrations, this is a new Freckleface Strawberry book that young readers can read all by themselves!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780385391993
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	01/12/2016
Series:	Step into Reading Book Series: A Step 2 Book
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
Lexile:	380L (what's this?)
File size:	6 MB
Age Range:	4 - 6 Years

About the Author

JULIANNE MOORE is an Academy Award–winning actress and the author of the New York Times bestselling Freckleface Strawberry series and My Mom Is a Foreigner, But Not to Me, illustrated by Meilo So. She lives in New York City with her family. 

LeUYEN PHAM is the prolific illustrator of many books for children, including the New York Times bestselling Freckleface Strawberry series and Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio. Her own works include The Twelve Days of Christmas, All the Things I Love About You, and Big Sister, Little Sister. She lives with her husband and two sons in San Francisco.

Editorial Reviews

11/09/2015
In the third early reader featuring Moore’s redheaded heroine (following Backpacks! and Lunch, or What’s That?), Freckleface Strawberry is eager to lose her first loose tooth—so long as it happens at school, where the nurse will give her a tooth necklace like the ones her classmates have. Moore stages the action over four brief chapters, employing simple sentences and repeated phrases (“She did not want to lose it in her room. She did not want to lose it in the kitchen”). But while Freckleface’s eventual decision to take matters into her own hands provides a needed jolt of fun, the story and characters’ personalities feel quite muted. Ages 4–6. Author’s agent: Brenda Bowen, Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. Illustrator’s agent: Linda Pratt, Wernick & Pratt Agency. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly