His brother runs for help and after repeating John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt four or five times, almost passes out from exhaustion, leaving his evil mother childless. Of course the little boys are monkeying around in the bathtub AGAIN, I mean near the well, despite the close brush with death and this time Golden Boy falls into the well. Golden Boy runs to his mother and they get a ladder-wielding-tree-napping-old-man to save him named “Old Man With The Ladder.” He pumps the boy’s leg like a water pump to revive him which must be some sort of olden time CPR. So,the boys are monkeying around and Clueless Playmate falls into the well. Wiki-the-source-of-all-truth-pedia makes no mention of controversy from the global organization of younger Siblings w Hining about Rivalry Instilled by Mom & Pop or SHRIMP. Or given it to Devon George Tyrone Purnell and his brother Bryan to see what happens? The Book Elf and Miss Dueñas should probably have consulted our Chinese family, Lonnie and Tyrone, on how they feel about this book. Wiki-the-source-of-all-truth-pedia, states that the book is controversial because it may be a Japanese story told about China and does not portray Chinese culture accurately. His younger brother is considered some sort of back-up and is given a short name (Chang) which means “Little or Nothing” or Clueless Playmate or something. The oldest one is purportedly given a long impressive name meaning “The Most Wonderful Thing in the Whole Wide World” as he is to inherit his parents’ beloved possessions. In a nutshell: Tikki Tikki Tembo as retold by Arlene Mosel is a fabled Chinese fable about two little brothers. It seems none of the kindergartens have put two and two together and realized their teachers speak English, too. Perhaps this is the Spanish version of the Chinese story translated to English about the little boy named Pepe and his brother Chango… Maestra Pati ño and Maestra Dueñas switch classes each day after lunch to teach English. Only he insists it’s Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi- PEPI PEPI pembo. The boys look at me like I’m a magical alien when I surprise them with a strategically dropped Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.Ī few weeks ago, Jake came home saying this name over and over from his hourly English class with Miss Dueñas. It seems to be human nature to love long silly words. For the purposes of this story, we’re going to assume it was Tikki Tikki Tembo and thus create the impression of an even stronger personal link to this book. It was either Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo OR John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt. One memory I have is of listening to something that had a really, really long name and loving it. Or maybe it played stone tablets? My dinosaur friend Edwina and I would lay on our tummies and kick our feet in the air while we listened. And I remember listening to stories and songs on a little record player. I remember my friend Esther inviting me over to play and describing how I would recognize her house because the back wasn’t painted. I remember our alphabet letter books and painting outside on easels and little boys hiding under the tables and giggling. Surprisingly, I still remember quite a bit from kindergarten.
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