title: A Trip to the Dentist
author:  Margot Linn 
description: Aimed at preschoolers facing potentially scary "firsts", this book reveals in fold-out pages the answers to questions like, "Who is going to weigh Joey? The nurse. What will Joey stand on? See if you can guess." Shown is a stool, a scale and a skateboard. Joey stands on the scale with a smiling Mom and nurse. This simple format introduces instruments of a typical check-up: scale, blood-pressure cuff, stethoscope, otoscope, tongue depressor and a syringe. Nothing more terrible than the injection is mentioned; in similar fashion, the dentist visit is only to clean and X-ray Annie's teeth. Both books work gently to familiarize children with medical routines, and, as such, they succeed, while Siracusa's pictures clarify Linn's aims. The books' drawbacks are excessive cheeriness and a lack of information (presented in a way that toddlers can understand) about why people visit doctors. But these are still straightforward and useful. Ages 2-5. <BR>Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: **JUST ONE DRINK . . .**
  
  He looked at her with fear in his eyes. “Will it be very painful?” he asked.
  
  She smiled and shook her head. “No. I’m going to use some psychic commands to
  make you relax.”
  
  He gave a weak grin. “Like mental Xanax?”
  
  “Why don’t you take off your shirt and lie on the bed?” she said.
  
  He lay back and closed his eyes. She stood next to the bed and concentrated,
  commanding him to relax and feel no fear.
  
  His face became soft and peaceful, and he smiled slightly. “Um, this is nice,”
  he mumbled. “Kinda like the gas the dentist gives.”
  
  She eased down on the bed next to him and turned his face away slightly so she
  could get to his neck. She felt herself begin to change as she lowered her
  face and gently bared her growing fangs.
  
  When she bit into the skin over his jugular vein, he moaned softly and
  stiffened slightly, then he went limp as her mental commands caused him to
  relax once again.
  
  As his warm, salty blood flowed into her mouth, she drank, feeling her face
  c