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Title: Tikki Tikki Tembo
Author: Arlene Mosel
Narrator: Marcia Gay Harden
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 20 minutes
Release date: July 21, 2009
Genres: Non-fiction
Publisher's Summary:
This humorous retelling of a favorite folktale recounts how the Chinese came to give their children short names. This perfect read-aloud storybook is one adults and children will enjoy sharing together again and again.When the eldest son fell in the well and most of the time getting help was spent pronouncing the name of the one in trouble, the Chinese, according to legend, decided to give all their children short names. Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo is the name of a mother's first, and most honored, son. It means, 'the most wonderful thing in the whole wide world!'