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* California Young Reader Medal 수상도서
* Flicker Tale Children's Book Award 수상도서


어느날 아침에 할아버지는 밤새 유리컵 안에 넣어 둔 자신의 틀니가 사라진 것을 발견했습니다. 경찰이 와서 조사를 하고, 틀니를 현상 수배하는 포스터를 붙이고, 심지어 "해결되지 않은 범죄"라는 TV프로그램에서도 할아버지의 틀니 도난 사건이 방송되었습니다만, 틀니의 행방은 오리무중이었습니다.

이제 마을 사람들 중에서 입을 다물고 있는 사람들은 의심을 받게 되자, 모든 마을 사람들이 의심을 받지 않으려고 이빨을 드러낸 채 활짝 웃는 표정을 지었습니다. 마을을 방문한 관광객들은 모든 사람들이 이빨을 드러낸 채 활짝 웃고 있는 기과한 광경에 겁을 먹게 되고, 점차 관광객들이 줄어들어서 마을의 식당과 가게들은 큰 타격을 입게 되었습니다.

도대체 할아버지의 틀니는 어디로 사라진 것일까요? 그리고 누가 훔쳐간 걸까요? 책 마지막 페이지에는 기상천외한 반전이 기다리고 있습니다.

각 페이지마다 웃음거리가 가득한 유머러스한 책입니다.






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Paperback: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0064435571
ISBN-13: 978-0064435574
책 크기: 20.4 cm x 25.3 cm



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Book Description
Grandpa's teeth, which were handmade by the finest Swiss craftsmen, have been stolen! Officer Rate arrives on the crime scene to investigate. He puts up WANTED posters for the missing teeth and rounds up the usual subjects. Grandpa even goes on the famous TV show Unsolved Crimes. But the crime remains unsolved. What is Grandpa going to do? And why does everyone in town keep smiling all the time?
Popular Australian cartoonist Rod Clement, the author and illustrator of Just Another Ordinary Day, has created another hilarious tale of misadventure. Combining tongue-in-cheek text with his uniquely zany illustrations, Clement has created the funniest crime story of the century, with the wackiest solution ever! Grandpa's teeth have mysteriously disappeared, and the whole town is under suspicion. The only way for people to prove they are innocent is to smile'all the time! When will the dastardly crime be solved? Best-selling Australian author and artist Rod Clement has created another wickedly funny picture book that will make children grin until their teeth fall out!
Grandpa's teeth have mysteriously disappeared, and the whole town is under suspicion. The only way for people to prove they are innocent is to smile'all the time! When will the dastardly crime be solved? Best-selling Australian author and artist Rod Clement has created another wickedly funny picture book that will make children grin until their teeth fall out!


School Library Journal
Grandpa's very expensive, custom-made false teeth have been stolen. The police are alerted and an artist's rendering of the missing choppers is posted as "wanted" all over town. Even though "Unsolved Crimes" broadcasts a reenactment on television and dentures are found in the mailbox, none are the missing ones. Grandpa suspects everyone, so townsfolk smile widely to show that their teeth are their own. Finally, people of the town rally to Grandpa's cause and kick in to replace his teeth. Now everyone is grinning, including Grandpa's always dour dog, Gump, who smiles a very "familiar" smile. The text reinforces the humor in the pictures, displaying Grandpa's distinct toothless talk, "It'sth much more stherious. It'sth my teeth?they've been sthtolen." Clement's slightly exaggerated characters are perfectly suited to this toothy tale. Pictures extend the text as evidenced in the search of Grandpa's messy room where everything from apple cores to bugs are found, but not teeth. Grandpa's Teeth is a hoot.


Booklist
It's a "disthasthter" when Grandpa's false teeth are stolen. For one thing, it makes him talk like a teakettle. For another, these were no ordinary dentures. "Thosthe teeth were sthpecial," he whistles, "handmade by the finestht Sthwissth craftsthmen." Despite Grandpa's appearance on the TV show Unsolved Crimes, the police remain baffled, and soon the town is in an uproar. For everyone is suspect, and the only way to prove you're not the thief is to grin broadly enough to show all your own choppers. The sight of so many dazzling ivories is enough to scare the tourists away, and the specter of economic ruin looms. After all this inspired nonsense, how Grandpa finally gets some new teeth is a tad anticlimactic. And anyone who has read William Joyce's A Day with Wilbur Robinson (1990) won't be a bit surprised by the identity of the thief. But Australian cartoonist Clement's pictures are a hoot and a half, and his story has enough sly touches to keep readers grinning . . . toothily!