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Rackety tale of the Teeny Weeny Bop's excursions to town to buy a pet. Good hamster...but where can she keep him? Chant along home with her and find out!

The Teeny Weeny Bop

Author:

Illustrator:

Margaret Read MacDonald

Diane Greenseid

Rackety tale of the Teeny Weeny Bop's excursions to town to buy a pet. Good hamster...but where can she keep him? Chant along home with her and find out!

Categories

Children's Books: Picture Books

Singing Tales

Editions

Hardcover

2006

Albert Whitman

32

0-8075-7992-0

Quotes

In this aptly illustrated version of a tale that folklorist/storyteller extraordinaire MacDonald has told for years, and even recorded, the title character is a small woman with half-glasses, a tendency toward wide, exuberant gestures and—except for huge

Kirkus

Impetuous and boisterous, Teeny Weeny Bop selects one ill-chosen pet after another in this silly tale anchored in folktale motifs and nursery rhyme refrains.

Horn Book Guide, Fall 2006

The bright, energetic pictures match the silliness of this tale. ...youngster will happily join in the fun!

SLJ 8/1/06

Margaret Read MacDonald is a gifted librarian storyteller who once again has turned an oral tale into appealing, playful reading fun.

Children's Literature

MacDonald again turns to folk motifs in this cheerful original tale, inspired by folktales in "the British tradition." Greenseid uses heavy brush strokes, bright colors, and significant dark blue and purple underpainting to give her humorously exaggerated characters and scenes a jaunty look to match the telling.

Booklist, May 15, 2006, John Stewig

Awards

Show Me Readers Preliminary Award List

2008-2009

Mouse illustration by Julie Paschkis

© 2025 Margaret Read MacDonald

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