George Washington’s Tooth

On this reverentially humorous story from Deborah Chandra written in verse and based mostly on Washington’s letters, diaries, and different historic data, readers will discover out what actually occurred as they observe the path of misplaced tooth to finish tooflessness.

From battling toothaches whereas preventing the British, to having rotten tooth eliminated by his dentists, the Father of His Nation suffered all his life with tooth issues. But, opposite to standard perception, he by no means had a set of wood tooth. Beginning on the age of twenty-four, George Washington misplaced on common a tooth a 12 months, and by the point he was elected president, he had solely two left!

Illustrated in watercolors with refined humor by Brock Cole, George Washington’s Tooth is adopted by a four-page time line that includes reproduced interval portraits of Washington.