Product Description

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!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1338877 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-15
• Released on: 2006-04-15
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .43" h x 11.08" w x 8.86" l, .90 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 32 pages

From School Library Journal
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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From Booklist
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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About the Author
Margaret Read MacDonald is an Albert Whitman author.