![]() ![]() This is not different than what the author did in this book.Īll of this may not seem like a big deal since it is a children's book and they don't know the difference right? Right, they probably don't. Let's say I was an author/illustrator and wrote a story/adventure about Native Americans and depicted them as such: living in three story mansions, not living in groups-staying in seperate areas very far apart keeping to themselves, cooking on the stove top, dressing as we do today in America.and why don't we give the main characters names like Ishmael, Gustav, Jenna, or Marquita. Which makes sense if you know American history. The author obviously is more familiar with Japanese culture than Chinese culture. The deficiencies in the book specifically is that it is based in China, but the children's names are Japanese and almost everything in the book visually is Japanese. THEY ARE FROM ENTIRELY DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. Each and every ethnicity is VERY different. It is disresepectful to categorize all Asians as the same. ![]() The point is the author did not care enough to be accurate-to differentiate between the Asians ethnicities that are too often categorized into one group. Of course the premise of the story is absurd-but that is not the point. Of course the story is not racist-but that is not the point. at the top of his voice at the grocery store. Is it terrible that I read the last page as, "And that is why all wells in China are fenced off, so that children can't accidentally fall in them" rather than "and that is why all children in China have short names"? I probably should just put this book away before I find my son singing "tikki tikki tembo, no sa rembo." etc. The whole name, which was so much fun to say as a kid, now feels kind of racist, like hearing someone pretend to speak Chinese by saying, "ching chong chang." But the thing I really can't get over is how bad the problem solving is in the book - it kind of implies the whole culture is unable to do basic root cause analysis. It just feels weird! I'm not crazy about the fact that the mom in the book is really nice to her elder son and mean to (or at least disinterested in) her younger son, but that didn't bother me as a kid (probably because I'm the older sibling). It's completely harmless, but one just doesn't say things like "and that's why the Chinese give their sons short names today" anymore. I couldn't wait to get it and read it with my little guy - and boy oh boy was I surprised to find that it feels kind of racist in today's day and age. Mosel's Tikki Tikki Tembo, a bestseller since its publication in 1968, and Bruce Goldstone's The Beastly Feast.I loved this book so very much as a child. Blair Lent (1930-2009) received the Caldecott Medal for The Funny Little Woman, and three Caldecott Honors. Mosel also wrote The Funny Little Woman, an Honor Book for the Hans Christian Andersen International Children's Book Awards. In 1997, The New York Times named it one of the best 50 children's books of the previous 50 years. ![]() for reading aloud." - Kirkus Reviews "On spacious, uncluttered pages the artist has extended the story with wonderfully droll ink-and-wash drawings that combine imaginative beauty with a true Chinese spirit." - The Horn BookĪrlene 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. "Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo is the full name of the firstborn son in the Chinese family of this story.This old folktale of what happens when the boy falls into a well.should make excellent read-aloud material.Bright, active, and delightfully expressive." - School Library Journal "Just right for storytelling and tongue-twisting repeating, and. ![]() Tikki Tikki Tembo is the winner of the 1968 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Picture Books. Arlene Mosel and Blair Lent's classic has hooked legions of children, teachers, and parents, who return, generation after generation, to shout the name of Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo. Tikki Tikki Tembo is the 1968 winner of the Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Picture Books.Ĭhari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo! Five decades and more than one million copies later children still love hearing about the boy with the long name who fell down the well. ![]()
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