Teeny Tiny Tingly Tales

By Nancy Van Laan

Book Overview

What happens when... Old Doctor Wango Tango, along with his rosy, blowsy, noisy nose and crew of lightweight pets, travels to the tip of a "very" windy hill? Two dancing legs; two waving, whirling arms; and one "big" head piece themselves together? A little old lady buries the prickly, tickly, scary, hairy toe that she's found, only to be chased by the "something" that wants it back? Children will tingle with terror and shriek with glee over Nancy Van Laan and Victoria Chess's hilariously spooky -- but not "too" spooky -- read-aloud tales.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689818750
• ISBN13: 9780689818752
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.9" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 3 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Teeny Tiny Tingly Tales

I love scary books (ie: Poe, Hitchcock, Twilight Zone) and wanted to share that wonderful feeling of safely being scared with my grandkids (boys ages 2 & 5 yrs, and a girl age 5 yrs). At the library I found Teeny Tiny Tingly Tales. What a wonderful book to introduce the genre to them! I lost count of how many times we read the book before we had to return it to the library. They were still talking about it months later..especially ...drum roll...scary voice...The Haaaaairy Toooooe. My grandkids were so excited when I bought the book. We have read it over and over and over and over. Our 5 year old granddaughter now reads it to us with great expression and lots of fun scary voices (grandpa & I get very scared, of course:)) I would highly reccommend this book. I wish I could give it more than 5 stars. I wish it had been around when I was teaching first grade. My students would have loved it!

"Little Bit Scary, Not Lot Bit Scary"

"Little bit scary, not lot bit scary." That is how my son describes this book. He is three years and three months old, which is just within the author's targeted age bracket. I first encountered this book at our neighborhood library. I had a touch of trepidation that my son would find the book scary. When I first read it to him, he told me that it is a "little bit scary. Let's read it again!" He loves it!This book has three different short tales with interesting illustrations. "Mean Doctor Wango Tango" has many unfortunate pets. This is bound to spawn many questions: "Why is Doctor Wango Tango mean?" "Why is the cat mean?" "Why won't the dog grow?" "What are pebbles?" "What sound does the wind make?"The second story, "It", had me a bit nervous. At first I wasn't sure how my son would take to the various "body parts". He loves the idea of the "little bit scary" situation, which, in the end, becomes quite normal. My son won't let me turn to the first page of this story until I read the title aloud, "It." This story too is a source of many questions and comments: "What is a jig?" "The hands clap!"The third story is my son's favorite. I think the rhymes are, for the most part, the most fluent. (Only a few awkward transitions.) This is also a fun one, because the subject is a hairy toe! Now, if it were a toe of a human, the story would just be sick. But instead, it is the toe of a "Something"! When the something is asking for the return of his hairy toe, the letters spill across the pages in a delightful "hairy text". My son is always asking to read the "hairy words" with me.Overall, we loved this book so much that we had to purchase our own copy. This may not be ideal for all three year olds. The parents should be the judges of that. But don't underestimate the capacity of your little ones to take in a delightful, unreal fantasy.