Reading with Your Child: Children's Books About Keeping Teeth Healthy
Below is a list of children's books about keeping teeth healthy and going to the dentist. Sharing these books with your child can help you get your child interested in brushing teeth and prepare them for their dental visit.
- Read to your child often and talk with your child about the books.
- Answer your child’s questions about the books in a straight forward way.
- Set aside a regular storybook time.
- Read books that fit your child’s level of understanding.
- Carry books with you when you run errands or are on trips.
- Bring your child’s favorite book to the dentist. It might make your child feel relaxed.
- Make regular trips to the library.
- Let your child see you reading often.
Book review of Tooth Tales from Around the World
- A Quarter From the Tooth Fairy by Caren Holtzman
- A Visit to the Dentist by Eleanor Fremont, illustrated by Andy Mastrocinque
- Andrew’s Loose Tooth by Robert N. Munsch, illustrated by Michael Martchenko
- Arthur’s Loose Tooth by Lillian Hoban
- Barney Goes to the Dentist
- The Berenstain Bears Visit the Dentist by Stan and Jan Berenstain
- Brush Your Teeth Please by Leslie McGuire, illustrated by Jean Pidgeon
- Dear Tooth Fairy by Pamela Duncan Edwards, illustrated by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick
- Doctor DeSoto by William Steig
- Dragon Teeth and Parrot Beaks: Even Creatures Brush Their Teeth by Almute Grohmann and Patricia Bereck Weikersheimer
- Fang the Dentist by Mike Thaler, illustrated by Jared Lee
- Healthy Teeth are Happy Teeth by Jacqueline Centofanti-Diaz
- How Many Teeth? by Paul Showers, illustrated by True Kelley
- Just Going to the Dentist by Mercer Mayer
- Little Bear Brushes His Teeth by Jutta Langreuter, illustrated by Vera Sobat
- Little Rabbit’s Loose Tooth by Lucy Bate
- My Loose Tooth by Stephen Krensky
- No Tooth, No Quarter by Jon Buller, illustrated by Susan Schade
- Open Wide: Tooth School Inside by Laurie Keller
- Sesame Street--Ready, Set, Brush: A Pop-Up Book by Che Rudko and Tom Brannon
- The Tooth Book by Theo Lesieg and Joseph Mathieu, illustrated by Dr. Seuss
- The Tooth Fairy by Kirsten Hall
- Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions from Around the World by Selby Beeler, illustrated by G. Brian Karas
- Trevor's Wiggly-Wobbly Toothby Lester L. Laminack
- What Do the Fairies Do With All Those Teeth? by Michel Luppens, illustrated by Phillipe Beha
- When I See My Dentist by Susan Kuklin
- Where's Your Tooth by Rozanne Lanczak Williams