Ratoncito Pérez Fairy Tale

They say that in Spain there lives a little mouse called Pérez. He lives in a cosy home with a tiny door inside the wall of a house in a big city. He wears a red cap and a little pair of spectacles.

Pérez has a special job: he collects the baby teeth that children lose. When a child loses a tooth, they put it under their pillow before they go to sleep.

At night, when everyone is asleep, Pérez comes out of the tiny door in the wall and creeps quietly into the child's room. He takes the tooth from under the pillow and leaves a little present in its place.

One day a little boy named Bubi lost a tooth. He wanted so much to see Pérez that he lay awake waiting. At midnight something rustled under his pillow. The boy opened his eyes, and there stood a mouse in a red cap!

"Why do you collect teeth?" asked Bubi. "From the teeth of children who brush them every day, I build a palace that shines like the stars," answered Pérez. "But the teeth of those who don't brush are no good to me."

From that night on, Bubi brushed his teeth every morning and every evening. And Pérez collected his teeth and made his palace more and more beautiful.