The Teeny-Tiny Woman

by Harriet Ziefert

Book Overview

A teeny-tiny woman finds a teeny-tiny bone in a graveyard and takes it home to make soup, but changes her mind during the night This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140376259
• ISBN13: 9780140376258
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.8" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 6 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 2

Customer Reviews

Great for a beginning reader

I wasn't familiar with the tale or other versions of it, so can't compare it that way. But, for my beginning-reader daughter this was an awesome book. Almost every line has the "teeny-tiny" phrase surrounded by simple words in it. The reader focuses on the easy words in each line, but the repetitious, longer phrase makes for nice and flowing progress. They end up reading text that's more satisfying than "see Spot run".

Why did she take the bone?

This has to be one of the cutest, most charming ghost stories to pop up... ever. The mystery remains of just why there is a creepy voice asking about a bone (heck, why did this woman take a bone in the first place?) but that's half the fun.

Teeny Tiny Woman

This short English fairy tale is loved by my upper level special education students. The familiar text, great story make it appealing to them. I have used this as a reader's theater to help with fluency.