Customer Reviews

The Teeny Tiny Teacher

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

As a librarian at an elementary school, The Teeny Tiny Teacher won rave reviews with the children when I read it to them. The children loved to repeat the teeny tiny ghost's chant, "Give me my bone!" Books that have a catch phrase like this, are great in keeping the children's interest. The kids especially enjoyed the pictures and seeing how stepping stones were actually Scrabble tiles, pencils held up the school's porch, a postage stamp of the president was hung on the school wall and all the other wonderful school supplies which were intermingled within the story. It is definitely an exciting tale and is very popular at my checkout desk.

My daughter's pre-school teachers read this book, and it was a huge hit! My daughter begged me to bring home a copy from the library, and then she didn't want to give it back! I'm going to buy her our own copy for Christmas. I highly recommend this book for parents of 3-5 year olds. Just beware - it can be a bit of a pain to read aloud, because of all the repetition.

Took this book out of the library and my kids could not get enough of it. I found it online and now I get to return the other one to the library.

I ordered this book through a book order and the synopsis of it did not include the ghost at the end at all. The book has nothing to do with the teeny tiny teacher, and if I had known it was a young children's version of a horror book, I definitely would not have bought it. Some children are very sensitive to Halloween images and to put out a book that springs that up at the end is irresponsible in my view.

My son (22mo) picked out this book from the Library due to the bright colors and illustrations. The first time we sat down to read it, we didn't finish it as he very quickly lost interest and I was so annoyed with all the "teeny tiny"! Imagine every sentence in the book having "teeny tiny" in it! The second time we sat down to read it, I took out all the "teeny tiny" parts and we made it all the way through. The story has nothing to do with a teacher. The plot goes like this... the teacher and the kids go on a walk to the park, the teacher finds a bone and puts it in her pocket, they return to school for a snack and a ghost proceeds to yell, "give me my bone", the story ends with the teacher yelling, "take it". Very boring and a bit morbid for us. I would get it from the library first and if your child loves it, then buy it. Otherwise, don't waste your money...you will be sorely dissapointed.

The illustrations are really great, which is the only reason I gave this book two stars instead of one. Nearly every noun in the book is preceeded by "teeny tiny". It is really annoying to read and also distracting from the plot. But then the plot leaves me with a great big "huh?". There are teeny tiny kids who go to a teeny tiny school and are taught be a teeny tiny teacher. (Ok, I'll drop the "teeny tiny's" from here on out.) They go for a walk and find a bone and bring it back to class. Then they hear a voice asking to give the bone back. The teacher tells the voice to take it and a ghost comes out of the closet and takes it. That's a very odd plot if you ask me.