Lucia, an active little girl, looses a tooth. Santiago, her out-of-work father, and her overworked but successful architect mother, Pilar, reassure Lucia, by telling her that, that very night, the Hairy Tooth Fairy (a mouse named Perez) will come to collect her tooth, leaving some money in its place. It just so happens that a mouse who had been monitoring the situation tells another mouse, who in turn tells another mouse, until the news fianlly reaches Perez, The Hairy Tooth Fairy. He lives in a boat in the port along with hundreds of other mice who receive the teeth that he collects, and then clean, shape and polish them so that they can be transformed into shiny round pearls.

Derek Thompson is The Tooth Fairy, a hard-charging minor league hockey player whose nickname comes from his habit of separating opposing players from their bicuspids. When Derek discourages a youngster s hopes, he s sentenced to one week s hard labor as a real tooth fairy, complete with the requisite tutu, wings and magic wand. At first, Derek can t handle the tooth - bumbling and stumbling as he tries to furtively wing his way through strangers homes...doing what tooth fairies do. But as Derek slowly adapts to his new position, he begins to rediscover his own forgotten dreams.

Derek Thompson is The Tooth Fairy, a hard-charging minor league hockey player whose nickname comes from his habit of separating opposing players from their bicuspids. When Derek discourages a youngster s hopes, he s sentenced to one week s hard labor as a real tooth fairy, complete with the requisite tutu, wings and magic wand. At first, Derek can t handle the tooth - bumbling and stumbling as he tries to furtively wing his way through strangers homes...doing what tooth fairies do. But as Derek slowly adapts to his new position, he begins to rediscover his own forgotten dreams

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The Sabertooth dominated the primal landscape of the Americas for nearly two million years, then suddenly, mysteriously went extinct. Find out how it lived, how it killed, and how it died.