Kirjahaku

While chasing a dumpling, a little lady is captured by wicked creatures from whom she escapes with the magic for becoming the richest woman in Japan

After a family's eldest son falls into a well and most of the time getting help is spent pronouncing the name of the one in trouble, the Chinese, according to legend, decide to give all their children short names. Reissue.

Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari 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. 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 winner of the 1968 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Picture Books.