Bright, active, and delightfully expressive. should make excellent read-aloud material. When Chang falls in the well one day, Tikki. Tikki tikki tembo and his younger brother Chang sometimes disobey their mother and play by the well near the river.
This old folktale of what happens when the boy falls into a well. Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel introduces readers to Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo, the first and most honored son of his mother.
for reading aloud."- Kirkus (pointer) "Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo is the full name of the firstborn son in the Chinese family of this story. Bright, active, and delightfully expressive." -School Library Journal, "Just right for storytelling and tongue-twisting repeating, and. Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo is the name of a. This old folktale of what happens when the boy falls into a well. Beautifully illustrated, this perfect read-aloud storybook is one adults. for reading aloud."-Kirkus(pointer) "Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo is the full name of the firstborn son in the Chinese family of this story.
Bright, active, and delightfully expressive." - School Library Journal "On spacious, uncluttered pages the artist has extended the story with wonderfully droll ink-and-wash drawings that combine imaginative beauty with a true Chinese spirit."- The Horn Book, "Just right for storytelling and tongue-twisting repeating, and. This old folktale of what happens when the boy falls into a well.
As an activity, each student could write out their own name as if they were Tikki tikki tembo, and for that day, each student would go by their long name."Just right for storytelling and tongue-twisting repeating, and. Beautifully illustrated, this perfect read-aloud storybook is one adults.
The author says it is a retelling of a Chinese folktale, but Tikki Tikki Tembo's exhaustively long name doesn't actually mean anything in Chinese and instead plays off of how funny the Chinese language sounds to Westerners. Listen Free to Tikki Tikki Tembo audiobook by Arlene Mosel with a 30 Day Free. To this day, the Chinese have thought it wise to give all of their children short names, instead of great long ones. I really enjoyed this book as a child, though reading it again and reading several other reviews, it is actually rather racist. They finally got Tikki tikki tembo out of the well, but it took him days to reccover. He found the old man, but he had the same problem, his brother's name was so long that he could barely get it out. I used this book in Energy Express this past summer as a read-aloud for family week. His mother said to go find the old man with the ladder. Chang ran to his mother to explain what happened, but his brother's name was so long, he could barely get it out. They got the old man with the ladder to get him out and he took no time to recover. One day Chang fell in and Tikki tikki tembo ran to his mother to help him. Chang and Tikki tikki tembo loved playing near the well, but their mother always said to be careful or they could fall in. Her first son was named Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo, which meant "the most wonderful thing in the world, and her second son was named Chang. A mother lived on a small mountain with her two sons.
It was a custom for father and mothers in China to give their first and honored sons a great long name, but seconds sons were given hardly a name at all. Tikki Tikki Tembo is a story of an old Chinese folktale.