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Tikki Tikki Tembo
"Do not play around the well," a Chinese mother tells her sons, who don't always listen to her. Sure enough, one day they are playing by the well and Chang, the second born son, falls in. His brother runs to tell his mother, who sends him for help, and Chang is soon rescued. The boys stay away from the well for a while, but they return one day and the honored first son falls into the well. Chang runs to tell his mother that Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo - which is his brother's honorable name, as the cherished firstborn - has fallen into the well, but the long tiresome name is so hard to keep repeating, Chang begins to worry they will not make it in time!
chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo!
Five decades and more than one 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 has hooked legions of children, teachers, and parents, who return, generation after generation, to learn 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.
loved it from my childhood.
Outstanding book for young children. My son is 42 and it is still one of his favorites as a child!
A book I just love reading, we wore our last one out.