Bent Northrop Memorial Library

Doctor De Soto, a mouse dentist, copes with the toothaches of various animals except those with a taste for mice, until the day a fox comes to him in great pain.

Since he had a tooth pulled, Alfie refuses to go to the dentist, but now he has a dental problem, and the new dentist comes looking for him at school at a time when all the children in town have been getting eerie gifts from the Tooth Fairy.

"This is the story of twenty-four hours in the life of Natwest, and his small-town odyssey in pursuit of [a] missing package. And yet it's also the story of a middle-aged dentist who dreams of being a respected artist--but the only thing he can seem to paint is the human mouth. And it's the story of a tortured imam involved in a quasi-romantic entanglement with the local vicar; and an octogenerian mourning the death of her secretive husband; and a...