Tikki Tikki Tembo

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Unabridged.
Compact disc.
"A Macmillan young listeners audiobook"--CD label.
Adaptation of a Chinese folktale.
Accompanying book: Illustrated by Blair Lent. 1st Square Fish ed. New York, NY : Square Fish, 2007. Originally published: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 1968.
Read by Marcia Gay Harden.
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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good submitted by poptart887 on August 28, 2016, 8:31am good book but long

Tikki Tikki Tembo submitted by SBNB on August 21, 2018, 4:02pm This is a great children's book. I heard this book as a child, and then throughout my life, I would randomly think about poor Tikki Tikki Tembo and his long name. It really is a great story.

good! submitted by elisabethmurphy on August 25, 2018, 4:14pm I like the part where they were eating rice cakes and they fell in the well