Perez the Mouse
Coloma, Luis, 1851-1915
Perez the Mouse - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratoncito_P%C3%A9rez Release date is 2009-07-18
E-text prepared by Louise Hope, David Edwards, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) E-text prepared by Louise Hope, David Edwards, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org)
"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.)
Mice -- Juvenile fiction Tooth Fairy (Legendary character) -- Juvenile fiction
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Perez the Mouse - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratoncito_P%C3%A9rez Release date is 2009-07-18
E-text prepared by Louise Hope, David Edwards, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) E-text prepared by Louise Hope, David Edwards, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org)
"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.)
Mice -- Juvenile fiction Tooth Fairy (Legendary character) -- Juvenile fiction
PZ