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Sinopsis

The Tooth Fairy and the Crocodile King is a fairy tale told in simple rhyming couplets. It is the story of a sleepy child who is visited by the Tooth Fairy; they take a journey together to the North Pole to meet King Crocodile, an avid collector of little teeth:

"King Crocodile's home is made of teeth,
And shimmers quite beyond belief,
But in his mouth there is not one;
His gums are bare as a baby's bum.
He eats jam, soup and ice cream too,
With mashed up pea and dumpling stew."

In return for her tooth the Crocodile King gives our heroine a gold coin which allows her to travel anywhere she wishes to go and so she visits the bottom of the sea:

“She swims with whales and talks to seals, 
And slithers with some slippery eels. 
She makes a hat from seaweed strands,
And comfy shoes from giant clams.”

Next morning she wakes to find the gold coin beneath her pillow and on her cupboard shelf:

“There sits a playful fairy there, 
Who waves her wand about the air. 
No-one can see her only you - 
And me of course, that makes just two."

• Novela juvenil