Tikki Tikki Tembo

Macmillan, Mar 15, 1968 - Juvenile Fiction - 47 pages

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.

About the author

Author and illustrator Blair Lent was born on January 20, 1929 in Boston, Massachusetts. He received a degree in art from the Boston Museum School in 1953. He travelled to Switzerland and Italy on a study grant and then worked for the Container Corporation of America designing tin-can labels and for the Bresnick Advertising Company designing bank loan advertisements. He wrote and illustrated Pistachio, which was published in 1964. He also wrote and illustrated John Tabor's Ride (1966); Baba Yaga (1966) using the name Ernest Small; Bayberry Bluff (1987); Molasses Flood (1992); and Ruby and Fred (2000). He specialized in illustrating international folk tales retold by other writers including The Wave (1964); Tikki Tikki Tembo (1968); Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky (1968); Little Match Girl (1968); and The Funny Little Woman, which won the Caldecott Medal in 1973. He died of pneumonia on January 27, 2009 at the age of 80.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Tikki Tikki Tembo; A Macmillan young listeners audiobook; H, R, & W; Henry Holt big books; Owlet book; Weston Woods read-along CD
• Illustrated by: Blair Lent
• Contributors: Arlene Mosel, Blair Lent
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Macmillan, 1968
• ISBN: 0805006621, 9780805006629
• Length: 47 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Country & Ethnic; Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General; Juvenile Fiction / Family / Siblings; Juvenile Fiction / Legends, Myths, Fables / General; Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / Asia; Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States / General; Social Science / Folklore & Mythology