About this ebook
When six-year-old Desmond loses his wobbly front tooth, he does what every sensible child does. He puts it under his pillow and waits for the tooth fairy.
But no sparkly fairy arrives.
No wand.
No tutu.
No polite little envelope.
Instead, at midnight, a rubber pipe creeps up through the bedroom floor, sniffs around his pillow, and sucks the tooth down into the grim, fluorescent depths of The Department of Lost Teeth.
Deep beneath the street, Desmond’s tooth lands in the world’s most miserable office block, where bored clerks weigh, stamp, sort, and process children’s teeth for extremely strange purposes. Mavis, a grumpy night-shift filing clerk in a completely unnecessary hi-vis vest, is unimpressed. Gareth, the department’s panicky manager, is even worse.
Then Desmond’s slightly jagged tooth jams the sorting machine.
Gareth takes one look at it, jumps to the wrong conclusion, and declares it a priceless dinosaur fossil. In a moment of spectacular bureaucratic panic, he sends the department’s entire golden pension fund up the pneumatic tube.
By morning, Desmond’s bedroom is filled with gold.
The Department of Lost Teeth is a funny illustrated children’s book in rhyme about lost teeth, ridiculous mistakes, underground offices, pneumatic tubes, and the shocking truth behind the tooth fairy. With clever rhyming text, a darkly silly premise, and a wonderfully absurd ending, this read-aloud picture book is perfect for children who enjoy funny bedtime stories, gross-out humour, strange machines, and grown-ups making terrible decisions.
Ideal for fans of humorous rhyming picture books, silly stories about the tooth fairy, funny books about losing teeth, and imaginative children’s stories with a mischievous twist.
Why children and grown-ups will enjoy it
A funny rhyming story that is ideal for reading aloud
A silly alternative to the classic tooth fairy story
A wonderfully grim underground office full of teeth, paperwork, and bad decisions
A comic cast including Desmond, Mavis, and panicky manager Gareth
A ridiculous chain of events involving a jammed machine, a fake dinosaur tooth, and a golden pension fund
Great for bedtime, story time, classrooms, and children who are about to lose a tooth
A funny, clever, read-aloud picture book for children aged 4–8 who like rhyming stories, tooth fairy books, silly mysteries, and absurd adventures with just the right amount of grossness.
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About the author
Nathan Nelson is a British author and illustrator who writes wildly funny, rhythmic picture books for young children. His stories are packed with eccentric characters, bouncy rhymes, and joyful chaos - the kind that makes bedtime reading an event. He lives in the UK with his family and a growing collection of ideas that really should not work but somehow do.
