Tikki Tikki Tembo

Arlene Mosel

Apr 2007 · Sold by Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

About this ebook

Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-
chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo!

Three 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 re-creation of an ancient Chinese folktale 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.

Ratings and reviews

My read it to me as kid and i remembered her reading it "step over step, step over step" we couldnt fall alseep one night my daughter says can we read a new book and this came to mind its amazing and fun for all ages

I'm so happy! I've been looking for this book since growing up and havung children of my own...It was absolutely my favorite in elementary school ♡

Loved this story as a child I would read to the younger kids in reading that needed help and it was my favorite book to this day. Read it to my grandchildren now.

About the author

Arlene Mosel (1921-1996)’s debut children’s book, Tikki Tikki Tembo, was an American Library Association Notable Book and won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. In 1997, The New York Times named it one of the best 50 children's books of the previous 50 years. Mosel also wrote The Funny Little Woman, an Honor Book for the Hans Christian Andersen International Children's Book Awards.

Blair Lent (1930-2009) received the Caldecott Medal for The Funny Little Woman, and three Caldecott Honors. He is the illustrator of Ms. Mosel's Tikki Tikki Tembo, a bestseller since its publication in 1968, and Bruce Goldstone's The Beastly Feast.