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Tikki Tikki Tembo

  • Arlene Mosel

4.50

12 ratings

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)

Genres

  • 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
  • Juvenile literature
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About the author

  • Arlene Mosel

    27 August 1921 - May 1996

    4.20

    15 ratings · 2 works

Editions

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    Macmillan Young Listeners

    Oct 30, 2012

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    Tandem Library

    October 1999

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    Holt, Rinehart and Winston

    Feb 06, 1968

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    Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

    Mar 15, 1968

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Macmillan Young Listeners

Jul 21, 2009

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    Square Fish

    Dec 29, 2020

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    Scholastic

    1968

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    Tandem Library, Turtleback Books: A Division of Sanval

    March 2001

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    Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

    November 15, 1992

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    1st Owlet ed.

    H. Holt and Co., Holt, Rinehart and Winston

    1989

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    Reprint edition

    Square Fish

    March 29, 2007

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    Spanish Language edition

    Lectorum Publications

    January 1, 1994

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    Spanish edition

    Lectorum Publications

    January 1, 1994

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    Henry Holt & Company, Inc.

    August 1977

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    Henry Holt & Company, Inc.

    August 1977

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    Scholastic Inc

    1986

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    Scholastic

    1991

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    Scholastic

    March 1985

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    Scholastic

    April 1984

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    Bk&Cassett edition

    Weston Woods

    June 1990

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    Scholastic Inc.

    1968

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    Lectorum Publications

    1994

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    Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media

    February 2002

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    Bk&Cassett edition

    Scholastic Audio Cassette

    October 1985

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    Bodley Head

    1969

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    Scholastic Bk.Services,U.S.

    1979

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    [1st ed.]

    Holt, Rinehart and Winston

    1968

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    Perfection Learning Prebound

    February 1979