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William's Smileytooth

by Bruce Collins

20 pages; Saddle stitched; catalogue #07-2445; ISBN 1-4251-5480-8; US$9.13, C$10.50, EUR7.12, £4.72

William's Smileytooth is a delightful little story of how an old and forgotten toothpaste container gained a face and became a small boy's most loved toy and companion.

About the Book

William's Smileytooth is a delightful little story of how an old and forgotten toothpaste container gained a face and became a small boy's most loved toy and companion. The story begins with an older William who is just beginning to realise that he doesn't think quite so much about Smiley as he calls him, as he once did. But when, through his carelessness Smileytooth is lost while on holiday with the rest of the family, William quickly remembers just how important Smileytooth is to him. When all searching proves futile a heartbroken William is eventually forced to leave Smileytooth behind. As he calls goodbye to his friend William truly believes he will he never see him again. But is all hope lost, or is there just a chance they will be reunited again?

About the Authors

Bruce Collins, married, with one teenage son left school at fifteen with no qualifications, climbed the career ladder the hard way to become an electrical engineer. After working in industry, a hospital and teaching first year electricians for a short while, he became a technical officer in a London Borough, a job held for over fifteen years. Increasingly disillusioned with the nature of local authority work and life in London in general, he recently moved to a village in Cumbria. Here he runs a small wholesale company with the help of his wife, Shama. His hobbies include practical astronomy, for which the dark Cumbrian sky is a vast improvement over the rather orange one found in London and looking after and driving a somewhat decrepit old M.G. But his main interest is in psychology reflecting his lifelong curiosity of the human condition. Having completed a number of courses on this and related subjects plus undertaken five and half years of personal psychoanalysis to try to understand himself, Bruce hopes one day to be in a position to help those who for psychological reasons have not achieved the universal human desire, to be happy.