Coloma, Luis 1851-1915 creator Vyse, George Howard Moreton, Lady 1863?-1944 text utu 2009 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) 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) Original publication data not identified Mice -- Juvenile fiction Tooth Fairy (Legendary character) -- Juvenile fiction PZ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29447 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29447 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133654.0 29447