Teeny Weeny Bop - Hardcover

MacDonald, Margaret Read

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807579920 ISBN 13: 9780807579923

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company, 2006

Synopsis

Teeny Weeny Bop has found a gold coin. Her luck is made; she'll buy a pet pig! But while she sleeps, the pig destroys the garden! Teeny needs a better pet--she's going to trade her pig for a cat. The cat destroys the living room!

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About the Authors

Margaret Read MacDonald is a children's librarian turned storyteller who travels the world sharing tales. Her many picture book retellings include The Boy from the Dragon Palace, Little Rooster's Diamond Button, and Mabela the Clever. When not traveling, she lives near Seattle, Washington.

Diane Greenseid is a published illustrator. Diane resides in Venice, CA . She can be contacted at: dianegreenseid@comcast.net

Reviews

Kindergarten-Grade 2–The bright, energetic pictures match the silliness of this tale that combines several folkloric motifs. Readers will recognize the story of a foolish person who runs off to buy a pet after finding money and then repeatedly makes bad bargains (trading a gold coin for a pig, a pig for a cat, etc.) until she eventually ends up with nothing. Children familiar with nursery rhymes will catch on to the refrain based on To market, to market! The repetition of similar lines lends the tale to telling aloud, and youngsters will happily join in the fun when the narrator interrupts to ask them what they think will happen next. Teeny Weeny Bop never learns her lesson, and when she finds another coin, she is ready to enter the mad cycle again. The action only ends because the narrator intrudes and tells her that her silly story has to stop. Children will enjoy the colorful pictures and rhythmic text.–Martha Simpson, Stratford Library Association, CT
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K-Gr. 2. MacDonald turns again to folk motifs in this a cheerful original tale, inspired by folktales in "the British tradition." A spry old lady, Teeny Weeny Bop, fritters away the gold coin she finds as she searches for a pet. When the pig she gets proves unsatisfactory, she trades it for a cat, which she trades for a hamster, and so on, until she ends up with a slimy slug--a bad pet, indeed. By incorporating words from Mother Goose, "To market, to market . . . ," MacDonald provides children with a familiar link to heighten the silly story. In a style reminiscent of her work in books such as Jacqueline Woodson's We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past (1997), 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. Suggest MacDonald's Pickin' Pears (1998) from the American South or The Girl Who Wore Too Much (1998), a folktale from Thailand, as follow-ups. John Warren Stewig
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Teeny Weeny Bop

By Margaret Read MacDonald, Diane Greenseid

ALBERT WHITMAN & Company

Copyright © 2006 Margaret Read MacDonald
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-8075-7992-3

CHAPTER 1

One morning Teeny Weeny Bop was sweeping her floor. She was sweeping her floor and sweeping her floor and ... she found a gold coin in a crack in her floor!

"My luck is MADE! I'll go to town and buy myself a little pet pig. I won't have to live alone anymore."

Off she went down the road ... just a-singing!

To market, to market! To buy a fat PIG! Home again, home again! Jiggety-JIG!

"Mr. Pet Man, I want to trade my gold coin for a little pet pig."

"Gold coin for a pig? Good enough trade. Pick out any pig you want."

"I'll take that fat little pig right ... there!"

I went to market and I bought a fat PIG! Going back home again. Jiggety-JIG!

"Now, where can I keep my pig?" she wondered.

I know—I'll put him in the garden. He'll be safe in there.

She went to bed, she went to sleep, she snored, snored, snored! What do you think the pig did during the night?

(Continues...)

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Edition details

• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807579920
• ISBN 13: 9780807579923
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Greenseid Diane
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32