Tikki Tikki Tembo
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An illustrated Chinese folk tale describes how the Chinese came to give all of their children short names.
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Arlene Mosel was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1921. She was a librarian and an author who wrote two award-winning children’s picture books with Blair Lent: Tikki Tikki Tembo, which won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and was an ALA Notable Book as well as a New York Times pick for best children’s book, and The Funny Little Woman, which won the Caldecott Medal and a 1974 Hans Christian Andersen International Children’s Book Award.
Blair Lent received the Caldecott Medal for The Funny Little Woman by Arlene Mosel. He has also received three Caldecott Honors. He is the illustrator of Ms. Mosel’s Tikki Tikki Tembo, a bestseller since its publication in 1968. Blair Lent lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780312367480
- Publication Date
- April 17, 2007
- Publisher
- Square Fish
- Page Count
- 42
- Words Per Page
- 23
- Audience
- Picture
- Reading Age
- 4 - 8 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 68011839
- WorldCat Number (OCLC)
- 157010659
- Lexile® Level
- AD910L
- Scholastic Level
- N
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~V
- ATOS® Book Level
- 4.2
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 0.5
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 6095
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- LG
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