The fair shimmered with more than books - posters, mugs, cookie-scented erasers. A kind woman smiled as C. wandered closer. "I'm in first grade," C. offered. "My teacher's Ms. Bloom. C. smiled showing two missing teeth." She held up her folded $5. "The tooth fairy gave me this." Her eyes landed on a tomato pincushion. "My Grandma BooBie, like tomatoes, we grow them in the garden." she said.


