As he was eating dinner one of his front teeth, which had been loose for a long time, finally came out. His
mother said “Billy, don’t forget to put your tooth under your pillow so that when the tooth fairy comes she can
wave her magic wand and turn your tooth into some money.” Billy said “yes mom” and the put the tooth into
his pocket for safekeeping.
After dinner Billy put on his boots, coat, gloves and hat so that he could go outside to take one last look
at his new snowman friend in the front yard. As he stood looking at his snowman, and thinking what a great job he had done,
he remembered the tooth that was still in his pocket. With a smile he took it out and stuck in under the snowman’s red
cowboy hat. “Now we’ll see how smart the tooth fairy really is,”
he said. “I bet she won’t find it there.”
Then Billy went inside, brushed his teeth, and went to bed.
Right after midnight a bright shining light came down and hovered in the little boy’s front yard. It was the tooth
fairy. She went straight up to the snowman and smiled as she shook her head. “That Billy, doesn’t he know that
you can’t fool the tooth fairy?” Then she waved her magic wand and a cloud of fairy dust came down on the snowman’s
head where Billy’s tooth was hidden under the red cowboy hat. In a bright flash of light, the tooth was turned into
a new shiny quarter and the tooth fairy was gone.
But then something amazing happened.
The snowman was suddenly very surprised, and very excited, to find out that he was alive. The magic fairy dust
had turned him into a living snowman. For the rest of the night the very happy snowman played in the snow and thought about
how wonderful it was to be able to move and play just like the little boy that had made him. He had a great time. But as the
morning came and all of the people in the neighborhood started getting up he once again held really still like regular snowmen
do.
As the winter sun started to shine into his room Billy jumped up, got dressed, and then ran out to see his new
snowman and whether or not the tooth fairy had found his tooth.
As Billy ran up to the snowman he suddenly looked around and realized that something was different.
There were funny tracks all over the yard in the snow and the snowman was in a different place than where he had been the
day before. He walked slowly up to the snowman and got really close to the snowman’s face. And right at that moment
the snowman sneezed really loudly!
Billy jumped way up in
the air. He was really surprised, and a little scared.
“You can’t be alive!” he shouted.
“Are you sure?” said the snowman rather nervously. He felt kind of bad for having sneezed and for
scaring the little boy.
“A snowman can’t talk, or sneeze, or anything.” said the little boy.
“Well, if you say so” said the snowman. He then lifted up the old red cowboy hat and picked up the
shiny new quarter. “By the way, I think this is yours".
“You are alive!” shouted Billy. He could hardly believe his eyes. As he took the shiny new quarter
from the stick hand of the snowman he smiled the biggest smile he had ever smiled. “It was the tooth fairy, she must
have done it!” And he gave the snowman a big hug. “This is great, now I have a real live snowman to play with.”
So Billy took the snowman by his stick arm and led him around to the backyard to play. They decided
it was probably best to play only in the backyard so no one else could see them. They thought it was probably a good idea
to keep this exciting news a secret, at least for now.
For the rest of the winter the snowman and the little boy played every day from morning until night. They had
more fun than any little boy and his snowman had ever had.
Finally, spring came and it began to get warmer and warmer until one morning when Billy ran outside to play
the snowman was nowhere to be seen. There was just the old red cowboy hat laying in the yard.
What do think happened to the snowman?
Let’s find out.
When he picked up the red cowboy hat he found a little tiny snowman! The snowman had melted until he was
only about the six inches tall. “Billy!” he cried, “you’ve got to help me.”
So Billy carefully picked up the now little snowman and ran into the garage. Inside the garage was a big freezer
where the little boy’s mom kept the extra turkeys she bought on sale after Thanksgiving. He quickly put the snowman
in the freezer and before he closed the lid he heard the little voice of the little snowman say “thank you Billy”.
The little snowman stayed in the freezer all through the spring, summer and fall until winter came and it was
cold enough for him to come out again and play. And every spring, when it got warm, back into the freezer the little snowman
would go before he started melting again.
And the little boy and the little snowman lived happily ever after for years and years and were the best friends
ever.
That is, until the day Billy's dad found a six inch lump of snow in the freezer one hot summer’s day,
thought it was ice cream, poured chocolate syrup on it and ate the little snowman all up. But that’s a story for another
time.
The End