Tikki Tikki Tembo
By: retold by Arlene Mosel ; illustrated by Blair Lent
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 41
ISBN-13: 9780590416221
Subjects: Folklore
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.