Comment faire entrer le dentifrice dans le tube? by Veena Prasad; illustrated by Rajiv Eipe and translated by Goofy

I confess that during the lockdown I downloaded a lot of ebooks. Tonight I focused my attention in an interesting children's books. It's french and the title is Comment faire entrer le dentifrice dans le tube? by Veena Prasad; illustrated by Rajiv Eipe and translated by Goofy. 

Toothbrush, toothpaste are voices incredibly common and very diversified in our times. We find toothpastes for all exigencies: whitest teeth, anti-sensibility, children's ones and same is for toothbrushes; they can be medium, hard, they can be electrics, colored. 

Well, once the story was different.

We are in New London, Connecticut, United States of America in 1878. 

Everyone had a sort of primitive old-fashioned toothbrush, and with that, every member of the family took, sharing happy viruses and bacteriums the "pate dentifrice" with the rest of the family. It was, in fact, put in a pot.

It wasn't hygienical at all. 

One day the son of a dentist, Sheffield refused to share his bacteriums with the rest of his family. That method didn't work at all and was insane thought the kid. Once a young boy afforded to Paris for studying as a dentist, when one day noticed a painter along the Sein; he used a metal tube for putting color on his palette. C'est genial! thought Sheffield. Just, Sheffield could not yet visualize his creation. He thought and thought: how  keeping safe the process of introduction of the pate dentifrice in the tube putting the pate dentifrice in the toothbrush without touching all together the pate dentifrice? Of course he sorted out the problem genially.  This children's book take also in consideration our times and our way of thinking and living the dental hygiene.

Beautiful! Highly recommended.

Anna Maria Polidori