Perez the Mouse by Luis Coloma
"Perez the Mouse" by Luis Coloma is a tale written in 1894 for the young King Alfonso XIII of Spain. When the eight-year-old monarch loses a tooth, Coloma creates the story of Ratón Pérez, a clever mouse living in a cookie box beneath a Madrid confectionery store. Traveling through city pipes, Pérez visits children's bedrooms to exchange lost teeth for small gifts, dodging cats along the way. This charming story transformed an
existing folktale character into Spain's beloved version of the Tooth Fairy, establishing a tradition that endures across Spanish-speaking cultures today. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Coloma, Luis, 1851-1915 |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Vyse, George Howard |
| Translator | Moreton, Lady, 1863?-1944 |
| Title | Perez the Mouse |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratoncito_P%C3%A9rez |
| Credits | E-text prepared by Louise Hope, David Edwards, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (www.archive.org) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 69.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | Mice -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Tooth Fairy (Legendary character) -- Juvenile fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 29447 |
| Release Date | Jul 18, 2009 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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