An edition of Tikki Tikki Tembo (1968)

Tikki Tikki Tembo

1st Owlet ed.

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An edition of Tikki Tikki Tembo (1968)

Tikki Tikki Tembo

1st Owlet ed.

by

  • ★★★★ ★ 4.5 (12 ratings) ·
  • 92 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 27 Have read

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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Publisher
H. Holt and Co., Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Language
English
Pages
46

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Subjects

Folklore, picture book for children, children's stories, Neighbors, Mothers and sons, Brothers, Juvenile fiction, Wells, Ladders, Middle-born children, First-born children, Chinese Names, Rescues, Personal Names, Legends, Folklore, china, Picture books, Picture books for children, Folklore, juvenile literature, Chinese, Fiction, Children's fiction, Humorous stories, Mothers and sons, fiction

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Cover of: Tikki Tikki Tembo
Tikki Tikki Tembo
January 1, 1994, Lectorum Publications
Library Binding in Spanish - Spanish Language edition
Cover of: Tikki Tikki Tembo
Tikki Tikki Tembo
1989, H. Holt and Co., Holt, Rinehart and Winston
in English - 1st Owlet ed.
Cover of: Tikki Tikki Tembo
Tikki Tikki Tembo
1968, Scholastic
in English

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Edition Notes

Adaptation of a Chinese folktale.

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Series
An Owlet book

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
398.27/0951
Library of Congress
PZ8.1.M8346 Ti 1989, PZ8.1.M8346 Ti

The Physical Object

Pagination
[46] p. :
Number of pages
46

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1914661M
Internet Archive
tikkitikkitembo00arle
ISBN 10
0805011668
LCCN
90122726, 68011839
OCLC/WorldCat
303376
Library Thing
34721
Goodreads
184192

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The book tells the story of a Chinese boy with a long name who fell into a well. It is a sort of origin myth about why Chinese names are so short today (wikipedia)

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