故事讲述的是在中国古代,长子总是有一个很长的名字,次子总是有个很短的名字。有一天兄弟两个一起玩耍时,次子掉到了井里,长子找到妈妈,很快就说清楚弟弟掉到了井里,弟弟获救了。过了一段时间,长子掉到了井里,次子说着哥哥长长的名字Tikki
tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri
pembo,妈妈还以为次子的舌头不利落……这样过儿较长的时间,长子才获救。从此,妈妈把长子也改成了短名字。
Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-
chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo!
Three decades and more than one million copies later children
still love hearing about the boy with the long name wh
關於作者:
Arlene Mosel 1921-1996 first heard the story of Tikki
tikki tembo as a child. When she grew up, she shared this wonderful
tale with countless children, including her own. Because so many
young listeners responded enthusiastically, she decided to write
her own retelling, and Tikki Tikki Tembo became her first
book for children. The book was named an American Library
Association Notable Book and won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award.
In 1997, The New York Times named it one of the best 50
children’s books of the previous 50 years. Mosel was also the
author of The Funny Little Woman, which won the 1973
Caldecott Medal for Blair Lent’s illustrations and was recognized
as an Honor Book by the Hans Christian Andersen International
Children’s Book Awards. Mosel was an associate professor of library
science at Case Western Reserve University. Born in Cleveland,
Ohio, Mosel died in Indianapolis in 1996.Blair Lent
began illustrating picture books in the 1960s. He received the
Caldecott Medal in 1973 for The Funny Little Woman, by
Arlene Mosel, and has also been awarded three Caldecott Honors. He
lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts.