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Tikki Tikki Tembo

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Grades – PreK,K,1,2,3
Ages – 4,5,6,7,8
Weight – 0.4

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Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-
chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo!

Three decades and a couple of million copies later children still love hearing about the boy with the long name who fell down the well. Arlene Mosel and Blair Lent’s classic re-creation of an ancient Chinese folktale has hooked legions of children, teachers, and parents, who return, generation after generation, to be told about the danger of having such an honorable name as Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo.

Tikki Tikki Tembo is the winner of the 1968 Boston Globe – Horn Book Award for Picture Books.

If you have not already read Tikki Tikki Tembo, you’ve probably heard no less than any person recite the deliriously long name of its protagonist: Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo, by now a famous refrain in most nursery schools. In this beautiful edition–complete with line and wash illustrations by artist Blair Lent–Arlene Mosel retells an old Chinese folktale about how the people of China came to give their children short names after traditionally giving their “first and honored” sons grand, long names. Tikki tikki tembo (because of this “the most wonderful thing in the whole wide world”) and his brother Chang (because of this “little or nothing”) get into trouble with a well, are saved by the Old Man with the Ladder, and change history whilst they are at it. Tikki Tikki Tembo is an ideal book to read aloud, but don’t be surprised when you’re joining the ranks of its chanting followers. (Picture book)
Grades – PreK,K,1,2,3
Ages – 4,5,6,7,8
Weight – 0.4
Depth – 9.40
Width – 8.23

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