![]() I dug the tape out a couple of years ago and my son and I enjoyed the listening. I loved listening to the story quite myself. The background "music" makes the story and the pauses and the predictable parts always warm a child’s heart. I think the storytelling is nicer than the book, except that there is a reference to the stereotype of a Chinese Laundry. ![]() Of course, there is this sing-song lilt to the whole thing. It was tikki tikki tembo no sarembo, oh ma mu-tchi, gamma gamma gu-tchi.like you remember. I still have it, but I would have to dig for it. The storyteller was definitely comfortable with media performance. I don’t know who the narrator was, but it could have been someone like Art Linkletter. He was the one that listened to a tape of this story as a child, that I got somehow. My son forwarded this e-letter exchange to me. But there’s no mention to that in this book.ĭoes anyone have memories of this as a kid? My siblings are backing me up, but I haven’t gone to my mom’s house to dig through the records. And they called him Long-name-no-can-say in my record. I am not sure how to spell my version, since its been YEARS since I listened to it, but here’s my best guess: Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-oo ma moochi-gamma gamma goochi. I *swear* that the story on my record was somewhat different! This book calls him Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo. So she got me copies of 5 of E and Craig’s fav childhood books - isn’t that the sweetest?Īnyhow, so I remember having a record of Tikki tikki tembo when I was little, so I skimmed through the book. I had told my mother-in-law that I was starting to collect some of the childhood books that I had as a kid to be able to read to my kids. One of them was the Tikki Tikki Tembo book. Teachers could have students write their own folktales about how they got their names.As I was cleaning up my room, I came across some of the Christmas presents I brought home from CA and hadn’t put away yet. Teachers could use this book to talk about names, favoritism, or what folktales are. The colors are pretty dull and only a few different colors are used. The illustrations are drawn in ink and colored in with water colors. That is why the Chinese usually give their children short names instead of long ones. He finally gets help but Tikki Tikki Tembo was there so long he was sick for a long time. It took even longer for Chong to get his mother's attention because his name is so long and complicated and that of the old man with the ladder who had helped get Chong out of the well. The same thing happens to happen to Tikki Tikki Tembo. The younger boy fell into the well and his brother Tikki Tikki Tembo with the long name has to run and get help. The mother believes the first born son is more important. This is a children's folktale about two brothers and the first born, the honored son, gets a very long name and the second born a very short name. As an activity, each student could write out their own name as if they were Tikki tikki tembo, and for that day, each student would go by their long name. To this day, the Chinese have thought it wise to give all of their children short names, instead of great long ones. They finally got Tikki tikki tembo out of the well, but it took him days to reccover. ![]() He found the old man, but he had the same problem, his brother's name was so long that he could barely get it out. His mother said to go find the old man with the ladder. Chang ran to his mother to explain what happened, but his brother's name was so long, he could barely get it out. They got the old man with the ladder to get him out and he took no time to recover. One day Chang fell in and Tikki tikki tembo ran to his mother to help him. Chang and Tikki tikki tembo loved playing near the well, but their mother always said to be careful or they could fall in. Her first son was named Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo, which meant "the most wonderful thing in the world, and her second son was named Chang. A mother lived on a small mountain with her two sons. It was a custom for father and mothers in China to give their first and honored sons a great long name, but seconds sons were given hardly a name at all. Tikki Tikki Tembo is a story of an old Chinese folktale.
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