cover image Albert's Impossible Toothache

Albert's Impossible Toothache

Barbara Williams. Candlewick Press (MA), $15.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-7636-1723-3

A young turtle complains of a toothache and nobody in his family believes him in Albert's Impossible Toothache (1974) by Barbara Williams, illus. by Doug Cushman. ""I wish that he would remember he's a turtle,"" his toothless mother laments. When Grandmother Turtle visits, she gets to the bottom of things.