My first encounter with Tikki Tikki Tembo occurred around middle school. And to tell you the truth, I felt uneasy.
"In music class, at school," she replied. When I overheard my half-Chinese/half-Caucasian 6-year-old daughter singing the name a couple months ago, I had to ask her where she learned it. org/product.cfm?product_id= 26879&StepNum=1&award=aw) The Fall 2009 Audio Book version was Parents' Choice Approved by the Parents' Choice Foundation.In 2007, the book was #53 on the National Education Association's Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children.In 1997, the New York Times named it "one of the 50 best books in the last 50 years." ( / article/CA6634456.html?desc= topstory).In 1968, it won the Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Picture Books.I think it's good food for thought:Īs a child, did you love Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel? Did you find the absurdly long name "Tikki Tikki Tembo-no Sa Rembo-chari Bari Ruchi-pip Peri Pembo" intoxicatingly fun to chant or sing? First published in 1968, the book has won some honors: With Irene's permission, I've republished her blog post here (her blog is private) for people to read. When I read it, I suddenly thought, Oh that's why I felt weird! So, when a friend of mine, recently sent me this blog post written by Irene Rideout, a lightbulb went on.
They had all worked hard on it and I was very grateful for the warm welcome the school gave me, yet deep down I felt a strange awkwardness that I couldn't put my finger on. The kids were absolutely great, the teachers were quite lovely and the play was really well done. Once, I visited a school where the kids put on a play of Tikki Tikki Tembo, in my honor.
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