Tikki Tikki Tembo
When the eldest son fell in the well and most of the time getting help was spent pronouncing the name of the one in trouble, the Chinese, according to legend, decided to give all their children short names.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
c1968.
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| Summary: | When the eldest son fell in the well and most of the time getting help was spent pronouncing the name of the one in trouble, the Chinese, according to legend, decided to give all their children short names. |
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| Item Description: | Publisher varies: H. Holt. Adaptation of a Chinese folktale. |
| Physical Description: | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. |
| ISBN: | 9780805006629 9780805011661 (pbk. : Owlet) 0805006621 0805011668 (pbk. : Owlet) 0805023453 (oversize) 9780805023459 (oversize) |
| Author Notes: | Arlene Mosel (1921-1996)'s debut children's book, Tikki Tikki Tembo , was an American Library Association Notable Book and won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. In 1997, The New York Times named it one of the best 50 children's books of the previous 50 years. Mosel also wrote The Funny Little Woman , an Honor Book for the Hans Christian Andersen International Children's Book Awards. |
