#Rikki tikki tembo no sa rembo how to#

The background 'music' makes the story and the pauses and the predictable parts always warm a child’s heart. I think the storytelling is nicer than the book, except that there is a reference to the stereotype of a Chinese Laundry. Of course, there is this sing-song lilt to the whole thing. It was tikki tikki tembo no sarembo, oh ma mu-tchi, gamma gamma gu-tchi.like you remember. I still have it, but I would have to dig for it. The storyteller was definitely comfortable with media performance. I don’t know who the narrator was, but it could have been someone like Art Linkletter. He was the one that listened to a tape of this story as a child, that I got somehow. My son forwarded this e-letter exchange to me.

But there’s no mention to that in this book.ĭoes anyone have memories of this as a kid? My siblings are backing me up, but I haven’t gone to my mom’s house to dig through the records. And they called him Long-name-no-can-say in my record.

#Rikki tikki tembo no sa rembo how to#

I am not sure how to spell my version, since its been YEARS since I listened to it, but here’s my best guess: Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-oo ma moochi-gamma gamma goochi. I *swear* that the story on my record was somewhat different! This book calls him Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo. So she got me copies of 5 of E and Craig’s fav childhood books - isn’t that the sweetest?Īnyhow, so I remember having a record of Tikki tikki tembo when I was little, so I skimmed through the book.

I had told my mother-in-law that I was starting to collect some of the childhood books that I had as a kid to be able to read to my kids. One of them was the Tikki Tikki Tembo book. As I was cleaning up my room, I came across some of the Christmas presents I brought home from CA and hadn’t put away yet.