Speaking in front of the class isn't easy for small people like Melissa Herman. Especially when there's nothing very special to say about her house or her family or herself. But with the help of her older brother, Melissa borrows a bottle from her father's dental office to take to show and tell. The teacher is appalled, but the children are intrigued. David Catrow's hilariously zany illustrations reveal that there is nothing ordinary about Melissa Herman, or her house or her family. The bright artwork is laugh-aloud funny and will have children begging to hear the story again, or maybe invent their very own tale.

When Melissa takes a big glass bottle of authentic pulled teeth from her father's dental office for a show-and-tell presentation, she becomes a first-grade celebrity.

In The Ring of Confidence, William Leith casts his mind back over his personal history - his education, his diet and particularly his dentistry - and considers what it is to be British.

This is a cautionary tale about a little girl called Mary Brown. Why is the tale cautionary? I hear you cry, well this little girl liked to guzzle down sweets and gorge on the fizziest of pop. Apart from this rather bad habit, she lived a normal life. She lived in a cosy cottage with her brother Peter, sister Kate and her parents, Mr and Mrs Brown.

For 5 Centuries children have been told to Brush Your Teeth, generation after generation, Century after Century by; parents, grandparents, dentists, dental hygienists, dental therapists, teachers, schools, Education Departments, Dental Associations, health related government agencies and even The World Health Organization. The list is endless. Children are brainwashed to Brush Your Teeth from a very early age up to their teens. Brush Your Teeth has been causing oral diseases since before 1498, the year the first tooth brush to be made with bristles was patented. Brush Your Teeth is a 15th Century tooth cleaning instruction. Brush Your Teeth is a cleaning-only instruction. Brush Your Teeth does not leave the whole mouth clean. Brush Your Teeth does not leave vulnerable-to-disease mouth surfaces protected from disease. Brush Your Teeth does not predictably prevent oral diseases.