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* ALA Notable Children's Books
* Parents Magazine, Best Children's Books of the Year
* Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
* NCSS-CBC Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies
* Booklist Editors' Choice
* Kirkus Reviews Editor's Choice
* Publishers Weekly Best Children's Books of the Year
* School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
* Arizona Young Readers' Award Master List
* Georgia Children’s Book Award Master List
* New Mexico Land of Enchantment Master List
* Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List
미국 건국의 아버지이자 초대 대통령인 죠지 워싱턴은 평생을 치통과 치아 문제로 속을 썩였습니다. 영국군과 대항해서 치열한 전투를 벌이는 독립전쟁 와중에도 죠지 워싱턴은 치통과의 전쟁도 함께 치러야 했습니다.
전쟁 중에 충치 때문에 치통을 견디지 못하고 계속 이빨을 뽑다보니 겨우 10개의 치아만 남게 되었으며,
그 와중에 식사시간에 너트를 먹다가 그만 이빨 하나가 또 빠져 버려서 9개가 남게 되었고,
추운 겨울날 델라웨어 강을 건너다 너무 덜덜 떨었는지 2개가 또 빠져서 7개만 남게 되었고,
마침내 영국군이 패하고 전쟁에서 승리했을 때, 그의 이빨은 단지 5개만 남았고,
승리 축하파티를 하는 와중에 3개가 더 빠져서 2개만 남게 되었고,
이가 빠져서 오목해진 입 안에 솜을 물고 초상화를 그리다 1개가 더 빠지는 바람에 1개만 남게 되었고,
치과의사가 만들어 온 틀니를 끼다가 그만 마지막 남은 이빨 한 개가 빠져 버리고 말았습니다.
모든 이가 다 빠져서 음식을 먹기도 어렵고 발음도 부정확해진 죠지 워싱턴은 제대로 된 이빨만 가질 수 있다면 얼마나 좋을까 생각하다가 좋은 생각이 떠 올랐습니다. 온 집안을 다 뒤져서 빠진 어금니들을 찾아낸 후, 그 이빨 모양대로 본을 떠서 틀니를 만들었고, 이 틀니는 죠지 워싱턴의 입 속에 꼭 들어 맞아서 죠지는 크게 기뻐했지요...
책 말미에는 죠지 워싱턴의 일대기와 함께 그의 치아들의 수난사도 함께 연대표로 정리해서 수록하고 있으며, 죠지 워싱턴이 끼었던 틀니의 사진도 함께 수록하고 있습니다.
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Paperback: 40 pages
ISBN-10: 0312376049
ISBN-13: 978-0312376048
책 크기: 25.8 cm x 21.6 cm
[ 영문 서평 ]
Book Description
From battling toothaches while fighting the British, to having rotten teeth removed by his dentists, the Father of His Country suffered all his life with tooth problems. Yet, contrary to popular belief, he never had a set of wooden teeth. Starting at the age of twenty-four, George Washington lost on average a tooth a year, and by the time he was elected president, he had only two left! In this reverentially funny tale written in verse and based on Washington’s letters, diaries, and other historical records, readers will find out what really happened as they follow the trail of lost teeth to complete tooflessness.
Illustrated in watercolors with subtle humor by Brock Cole, the main story is followed by a four-page time line featuring reproduced period portraits of Washington.
The New York Times
This is a fine introduction to a man every American child needs to know. In the eyes of his contemporaries and for generations after his death, Washington was an icon, embodying the best aspects of the American character. Brave, honest, steadfast and judicious, he was constantly held up as a model for both citizens and aspiring republican leaders. And George Washington's Teeth reminds us that Washington had yet another virtue that modern leaders might well ponder and -- as the 18th century would have said -- emulate: he knew how to keep his mouth shut.
Publishers Weekly
In a clever approach to history, Chandra and Comora string together spry stanzas describing the dental difficulties that plagued George Washington. Rhyming verse explains how the general's rotten teeth gradually fall out during the Revolutionary War: "George crossed the icy Delaware/ With nine teeth in his mouth./ In that cold and pitchy dark,/ Two more teeth came out!" Cole complements this verse by rendering a sly watercolor twist on Emanuel Leutze's famous painting George Washington Crossing the Delaware, in a full-spread treatment: Washington still stands in quiet dignity, but the boatmen are grinning. By the time Washington is elected president, just two teeth remain in his mouth. Kids will love the details, such as the way Washington uses a pair of his molars to fashion a mold from which the dentist makes a set of dentures (these are carved from hippopotamus ivory, and even shown, in a photograph in the afterword). Infusing his bustling watercolor vignettes with comic hyperbole, Cole easily keeps pace with the lighthearted narrative. One especially funny image shows the president sprawled on the floor, legs in the air, after viewing a newly painted portrait ("George stood up to have a look-/ He fell back on his fanny./ `It doesn't look like me!' he roared./ `It looks like Martha's granny!' "). An annotated timeline at the end includes quotes from the leader's letters and diaries chronicling his relentless efforts to hide his dental problems and the extent to which they caused him chronic pain and embarrassment. A highly palatable historical morsel.
Children's Literature
Forget what you thought you knew about George Washington's teeth. Plagued by poor dental health all of his life, Washington had already lost two teeth by the time he was twenty-two. Over the next 40 years he continued to lose, on average, one tooth a year until, at age 64, his last tooth was removed. Ill-fitting ivory dentures with wires caused his gums to swell and made chewing difficult and required incredible muscle control. No wonder his smile always looks so unnatural. Rollicking verse, enlivened by Brock Cole's witty drawings, tells of the effect Washington's long-suffering dental woes had on his military career and public life "George crossed the icy Delaware/With nine teeth in his mouth/In that cold and patchy dark, /Two more teeth came out." And "Poor George had two teeth in his mouth/The day the votes came in/The people had a President, /But one afraid to grin." Using historical records, letters, and diaries this humorous and reverent portrait follows the trail of the missing teeth and sets the record straight once and for all that Washington's false teeth were not made of wood. The appended time-line with sources gives veracity to the verse and will garner much sympathy for the Father of Our Country.
School Library Journal
In 28 rhymed, four-line stanzas, Chandra and Comora tell the sad story of George Washington's teeth. Beginning with the onset of the Revolutionary War, the countdown takes poor George from just about a mouthful of painful, rotten teeth to a state of complete "tooflessness"-and then to a pair of entirely successful dentures. Cole's watercolor cartoon illustrations are just right, giving comic vent to George's despair, hopelessness, fevered attempts at finding his teeth, and final triumphant, toothy strut at a ball. A beautifully illustrated four-page time line shows portraits of the dentally challenged first president and photos of his homegrown, incredibly uncomfortable-looking dentures, made of gold and hippopotamus ivory. (Contrary to legend, Washington never had wooden ones.) Given that his death was probably hastened by an untreated infection from old root fragments in his gums, this is not only a historical treatise, but also a great lesson in dental hygiene. Paired with Laurie Keller's antic Open Wide: Tooth School Inside (Holt, 1998), it could be used as a real-life example of the havoc wreaked by bad teeth. With 17 sources listed as contributing to the art and dental information on the time line, this accurate and intriguing slice of history should find a place in any elementary library collection.
Kirkus Reviews
Now It Can Be Told: that severe, square-jawed look that the Father of Our Country flashes in his portraits reveals not only strength of character, but also his struggle to hide the fact that he was nearly (entirely, later in life) toothless by keeping a succession of spring-loaded false teeth in place. Drawing information from Washington's own writings, the authors deliver a double account of his dental tribulations: first in sprightly rhyme-Martha "fed him mush and pickled tripe, / But when guests came to dine, / He sneaked one of his favorite nuts. / Then he had only nine"-followed by a detailed, annotated timeline. Cole's (Larky Mavis, 2001, etc.) freely drawn, rumpled-looking watercolors document the countdown as well, with scenes of the unhappy statesman at war and at home, surrounded by family, attendants (including dark-skinned ones), and would-be dentists, all in authentic 18th-century dress. Contrary to popular belief, Washington's false teeth were made not of wood, but of real teeth and hippo ivory; a photo of his last set closes this breezy, sympathetic, carefully-researched vignette on a note that will have readers feeling the great man's pain-and never looking at his painted visage the same way again. |
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