Unlike many other countries, where the person who performs this function is a fairy, in Spain we have the little mouse Pérez. A character fruit of the imagination of a nineteenth-century writer and journalist, on the royal commission of Alfonso XIII, who was eight at the time and who had recently lost a tooth. So, the original story tells us this mouse lived with his family inside a biscuit tin, in the warehouse of the then famous Prats pastry shop, in the heart of Madrid, and which, through the city pipes, could move freely. In fact, he could reach all the children’s rooms.
But this is only the original story, because the legend of the tooth fairy has been interpreted, told a thousand times and even invented with very alternative beginnings and endings. For everyone those children who are afraid when a tooth falls out or, even, in the imminent arrival of a mouse in your room, nothing better than one of these books that we recommend.
