Tikki Tikki Tembo
By: retold by Arlene Mosel ; illustrated by Blair Lent.
Contributors: Lent, Blair, illus.
Edition: 1st Owlet ed.
Series: An Owlet book
Publisher: H. Holt and Co.; Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 46
Subjects: Folklore -- China.
Description: 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.
Notes: Adaptation of a Chinese folktale.