![]() ![]() Each detail of the seemingly casual paintings has its own funny story to tell. The colorful illustrations are entertaining and a perfect fit with the text. While they are trying to figure out her response, Cousin Ruth announces that she has found her tooth. Uncle Drew wants to stick on a new tooth with Super Glue, while cousin Keith wants to buy one at "Wal-Mart, Sears, or All-Mart." Finally, after days of searching, they decide to "ask the wisest to advise us" and fax the Queen for a solution. The text offers some very funny rhymes and jokes as different Fisters offer their personal solutions. This everyday event throws the entire family into a riotous state, beginning with Ruth's aunt, who on the first page calls to her daughter "Rachel Fister, get your sister!" The characters' dash from page to page in search of the missing item is captured in Priceman's expressive watercolor illustrations. PreSchool-Grade 2?Cousin Ruth, a member of the wacky Fister clan introduced in Rachel Fister's Blister (Houghton, 1990), has lost a tooth. ![]()
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