Arthur Tricks the Tooth Fairy

The picture book Arthur Tricks the Tooth Fairy by Marc Brown is a great book for beginner readers to practice reading. The main point to this book is that D.W. looks up to her older brother Arthur and wants to be just like him. He losses his first tooth and the tooth fairy comes, so she wants the same thing to happen to her. She is too young to naturally loose a tooth, so she goes to great measures to find an animal tooth from the museum and hope that the tooth fairy will still come. Being the great brother Arthur is, he secretly puts a dollar under D.W.'s bed so she thinks the tooth fairy came. The idea of wanting to be just like your older sibling seems like a quality of many younger siblings, including me. I have a sister who is two years older than me named Beth. When we were little kids I wanted to take part in everything that she did. When she was in 4th grade she got really interested in the Goosebump books by R.L. Stine. I would hear her constantly talking about these books with her friends and raving how scary they were to read. Even though I was in 2nd grade, I wanted to read these chapter books so bad because I was jealous my sister and all her friends were bragging about them. I decided for my next book report to steal a Goosebump book from my sisters room, read it, and do a book report on it. Luckily, in 2nd grade you do not get letter grades, or I probably would have got an F on my book report. My teacher pulled me aside and talked to me about picking books to read that fit my current reading level. Since then, I have realized I may not be ready to do everything my sister is doing just like D.W. was not ready to do what Arthur was doing.