Letters From The Tooth Fairy

Wishes & Wonders

Letters From The Tooth Fairy

Has your child discovered their first wiggly tooth? Or maybe they just lost one of their front teeth, or perhaps they lost their last baby tooth. Why not make it a very special memory with a letter from The Tooth Fairy!

Let The Magic Begin...

Your child's letter will also include a little pouch of magic fairy dust and an "Offical Lost Tooth Certificate" signed by The Tooth Fairy! Now, don't forget to sprinkle a little fairy dust near your child's window...that is where The Tooth Fairy makes her escape!

Letters from The Tooth Fairy will include personal details about your child that you provide in the on-line form below. The letter will also mention how your child lost their tooth (while eating dinner, during recess, etc.), their friends, pets and recent events and achievements.

When your child's baby tooth falls out, have him or her place their tooth under their pillow or another special place until The Tooth Fairy arrives. After your child is asleep, you will replace their tooth with a personalized thank you letter from The Tooth Fairy.

HOW TO PLACE YOUR ORDER

Simply complete the Online Form below - you will find it under the fairy stuck in the cookie jar! The more information you provide, the more personalized your child's letter will be. Don't forget to click on the "Submit" button at the end of the form when you are finished. Then, click on the link titled "Pay For Your Letter Here".

Each Letter Only...

Your Letter Will Include:

Letter From Tooth Fairy
Magic Fairy Dust Pouch
Official Lost Tooth Certificate

EACH TOOTH FAIRY LETTER WILL BE MAILED NO LATER THAN 24 HOURS AFTER YOU PLACE YOUR ORDER!

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."

~Eleanor Roosevelt

A Brief History of The Tooth Fairy

The history of the tooth fairy is at once very simple, and also as culturally complex as any other modern mythology.

The most obvious and direct roots of the “Tooth Fairy” as we know it in modern American culture, are in a small 3-act children’s play called The Tooth Fairy, produced in 1927, and that of the character created by Lee Rothgow in the 1949 book called, simply, “The Tooth Fairy.”

As direct as that may seem, the Tooth Fairy character does borrow from a cross-cultural plethora of traditions that spans the globe, and many centuries. (Much like the merry amalgam that makes up so many of our beloved mythological characters, like Santa and the Easter Bunny, and all the other folks you find in seasonal celebrations.)

Take, for example, a French fairy tale dating back to the 18th Century about a mouse that transforms into a fairy in order to help a Good Queen overthrow an Evil King by hiding under his pillow and, in one instance, knocking out all of his teeth.

Several Spanish-speaking countries have a character called Ratoncito Pérez – a magical little mouse called the "ratón de los dientes" (Tooth Mouse). The "Ratoncito Pérez" character was created in the late 1800’s by the priest Luis Coloma, when he was asked by the royal family to write a tale for the 8-year-old Alfonso XIII, when one of his teeth had fallen out.

The Irish and Italians both have stories in which the tooth-fairy is also a little mouse – (called Topino in Italy and Annabogle in Ireland.) In a slight variation, parts of Lowland Scotland have replaced the tooth-mouse with a white fairy rat that purchases children’s discarded teeth with coins (much like those that are now left under American pillows!).

In some Asian countries, when a child loses a tooth it is customary to throw it onto the roof if it came from the lower jaw, or into the space beneath the floor if it came from the upper jaw. The child then wishes for his or her tooth to be replaced with that of a mouse, probably owing to the fact that mice’s teeth grow for their entire lifetime – presumably giving children a lifetime of healthy teeth.

Regardless of the precise mythology, it’s pretty clear that the losing of one’s baby teeth is considered and important rite of passage and has been celebrated with makeshift magic and mysticism as befitting the passage from childhood into adulthood – whether with wings or with magical mice.