When the tooth that she was saving for the tooth fairy disappears, Ora Mae sets out to find the thief and send him "airmail to the moon!" Grade 1-3 Birdseye has an interesting story larded with perhaps a bit too much cornpone claptrap. Ora Mae Cotton of Crabapple Orchard, also known as Oreo, loses her first tooth, first from her mouth and then from under her pillow. She sets out to find who stole it, first checking with her mother about the Tooth Fairy's honesty. In tracking down the culprit she promises to ``open up a can of gotcha and send `em airmail to the moon.'' As she confronts various family members she gets some fresh interpretations of just what that Tooth Fairy might be doing with all those teeth she collects. These range from turning them into doorknobs to saving them to give to babies. Gammell's colorful pencil drawings carry out the down-home rickety flavor from the title page outhouse to the pig waller. If the country flavor is spread a bit thick, the underlying story does work. It may even add to the satisfaction when old ``motor-mouth'' Oreo finds her tooth and gets her embarrassing comeuppance. Judith Gloyer, Milwaukee Public Library Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.