More fantastic news for our children’s list: Penelope and the Big Baby Tooth Ballyhoo, written by Saara Kekäläinen and illustrated by Reetta Niemensivu, has been sold to Korea and Latvia.
In Korea, Penelope and the Big Baby Tooth Ballyhoo will be published by Korean Studies Information while in Latvia this gorgeous title will be published by Latvijas Mediji.
Penelope and the Big Baby Tooth Ballyhoo follows little Penelope as she suddenly notices that one of her teeth is wiggling, and her imagination takes flight. Maybe she’ll be sent a new sheep instead of a new tooth? Or maybe she’ll receive a visit from the tooth fairy’s mischievous cousin, the tooth imp?
Penelope and the Big Baby Tooth Ballyhoo is the second work in a new series of picture books that began with Penelope and the Perilous Porridge, in which this intrepid heroine brought her breakfast to heel – meanwhile earning a nomination for the Finlandia Junior Prize.
“Then Penelope remembered. She’d heard people were born without teeth, then got baby teeth, which were replaced by permanent teeth. And if you ate too much candy, you had a set of false teeth to look forward to.
Did the same thing also go for, say, feet?” Penelope is not one to shy away from questions, and she sure keeps us hooked while looking for answers. In Finland, the series is published by Tammi.
Warm congratulations to the author, and don’t miss out on this title!