Teeny Tiny

Title: Teeny Tiny

Author:Jill Bennett/Tomie Depaola 

Reading level: Ages 4-8 

Grade: Pre-kindergarten-Second

Paperback: 32 pages 

Publisher: Puffin (December 29, 1997) 

Language: English

 The "Teeny Tiny" story is an old English ghost story. It is about a teeny tiny women who found a teeny tine bone and took it home to make soup. While she was in her house she was tired so she went to bed. She fell asleep and she heard a noise. "Give me my bone." She hid under her covers and waited so hear if she could hear it again and sure enough she did. The voice gets louder and louder "GIVE ME MY BONE." So the teeny tiny women jumps out of bed and tells the voice to "TAKE IT."

The rhythmic words in the story make is a wonderful book to read aloud to your students. It may be an older book but it has been retold by Barbara Seuling, Paul Galdone and many others. The voice building in the story is always a great way to teach how to read text that change over a period of time. How when words are big you read louder when words are small you read in a quiet voice. The pictures are very simple and with out the word I believe it would be a great wordless book for children to make up their own story too. The elements in the story are alliteration "Teeny Tiny" and Personification given the ghost the ability to talk. I would use this story to help me teach the rhythmic use of words. This story was one I read in school. I really enjoyed it and I think it would be a great end of the week read aloud for a class!