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Calmenson, Stephanie

The Teeny Tiny Teacher: A Teeny Tiny Ghost Story Adapted a Teeny Tiny Bit

32 pp. | Scholastic | August, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-590-37123-1 $$15.95

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Denis Roche. The setting for this old folktale is a contemporary school, which Roche playfully equips for characters sized like Borrowers--the six teeny tiny pupils, for example, sit on dice. The setting draws young readers immediately into the story and introduces some delicious incongruities. Try telling Joseph Jacobs's "Teeny Tiny" along with this one, and let children make their own comparisons.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 1998