I Lost My Tooth in Africa

Title: I lost my Tooth in Africa                                                         

Author: Penda Diakite

Illustrator: Baba Wague Diakite

Genre: fiction

Subgenre: Multicultural

Theme: family, comparison and merging of cultures

Primary Characters: Amina

Secondary Characters: Author’s Sister

Awards: None

Date of Publication: 2006

Publishing Company: Scholastic Press

Summary of the book:  I lost My Tooth in Africa, is a story of a young girl from Portland, Oregon who visits her family in Mali, Africa. The young girl loses her loose tooth and receives a present from the “African tooth fairy”.

How can the book be used with students in the classroom:  This is great book to introduce children to African culture.