Squirrelly Gray by James Kochalka.

Squirrelly Gray sits in his black and white and gray world watching static on TV.  He is so bored he starts to wiggle his two front teeth until they fall out!  He tucks them under his pillow and waits for the tooth fairy to come.  During the night he is awoken by calls for help, coming from the Tooth Fairy who is stuck in a spider web.  She rewards Squirrelly Gray by giving him  a magic acorn with a surprise inside.  But without his teeth, he can’t open it.  A Hungry Fox finds him and tries to whack him with a club, but instead opens the acorn up much and everyone can see the surprise hidden inside.

The artwork in the book is charming.  Squirrelly Gray is delightfully cute and the Hungry Fox is wonderfully scary.  I also enjoyed the way that comic book framing is used in some of the story.  It is a very child-friendly story with rhyming words that are not saccharine, but instead add to the pace of the adventure story.

Recommended as a book to share with a child one-on-one or in very small groups.  The art is wonderful but needs to be seen up close.