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Poor Andrew. His loose tooth hurts so much he can't even bite into an apple. How to get it out? Mother can't pull it out, Father can't yank it out, it resists the dentist and even the Tooth Fairy, who roars up on her motorcycle and breaks a sledgehammer on the stubborn tooth. At last, Andrew's friend Louis comes through, with the old pepper-up-the-nose trick, and Andrew's mighty "AHHHHH-CHOO!" sends the tooth shooting off across town like a bullet. As usual, Munsch's broad (if not deep) brand of humor and patterned style of storytelling will have young listeners chiming in between chortles, and Martchenko's cartoons create a suitably comic air. As a happy Andrew gorges on apples till he bulges, the tooth is last seen whizzing over a crowd of astonished motorists, with the leather-clad Tooth Fairy (a far cry from, for instance, Peter Collington's industrious but ethereal sprite in Tooth Fairy [1995]) in hot midair pursuit.