The Teeny-Tiny Woman: A Ghost Story

Paul Galdone, who retold many classic childhood tales over the course of his long career, from The Little Red Hen to Three Little Kittens, here turned his attention to that old English folktale, in which a teeny-tiny woman, finding a teeny-tiny bone in the cemetery, brought it home, and was visited by a ghost in consequence. I think the moral here, if there can be said to be one, is that one shouldn't rob graves.

An entertaining repetition-tale, with "teeny-tiny" popping up quite a bit in the narrative - the teeny-tiny woman lives in a teeny-tiny house, in a teeny-tiny village, and so on - The Teeny-Tiny Woman would make an excellent read-aloud! Galdone's artwork is appealing - I appreciated the fact that the weather immediately turned show more inclement, once the teeny-tiny woman stole the bone - although I think that, overall, I prefer the illustrations that Tomi de Paola did for Jill Bennett's Teeny Tiny. Still, young readers with a taste for spooky tales will enjoy this picture-book, as will Paul Galdone fans. show less

A teeny tiny woman goes out and finds a bone and brings it home and puts it in her cupboard. During the night, she hears a voice demanding the bone be returned. She tells the voice to take it back!

I love Galdone's illustrations, but the text of his versions of classic stories is mediocre.

This story is a spooky ghost tale of a teeny-tiny woman who is hungry and searches for food in the graveyard. She only can find a bone to eat. She heads home and places the bone in the bare cupboard and goes to sleep. In the middle of the night, she hears a voice beckoning for the bone. Terrified, she pulls the blanket over her head. The voice continues to get louder and louder until she puts the bone in the cupboard. The text of this story would be great to use for word repetition and inferring. The illustrations set an eerie tone throughout the book which is fitting, as it is a ghost tale. However, I found the actual plot a bit confusing. She places the bone in the cupboard and then replaces the bone in the cupboard again. For me, it show more did not make sense because she never removed the bone. I would consider this a conditional text and only used for a specific purpose such as rereading. show less

The Teeny- Tiny Woman by Paul Galdone is a folktale about a teeny-tiny woman. The teeny-tin woman stumbles upon a bone and plans to cook it. She never gets to cook the bone, because she ends up getting sleepy. The teeny-tiny woman is woken up several times from a voice inside the chest, coming from the bone, Finally she screams in her biggest tiny voice to take the bone.

The writer chose repetition for this book, using the words "teeny-tiny" over and over again. Originally, this story was to be a ghost tale, but I didn't get that from this story. To me, the repetition was a bit much, but I know children would really enjoy this.

This book was just alright, it did have a good message of do not take what isn't yours, but it could be very confusing. It did have a lot of repetition though that did get old after awhile, but for kids this is important.

37 months - Thankfully O didn't find it super funny that I had to say "teeny tiny" a million times reading this story. The story itself is fine It just gets very old very fast saying the same words over and over again. I won't be rushing to read or borrow this book again.

I know this is a classic and all, but the ending makes absolutely no sense to me. Great repetition, good read-aloud except for the ending. The teeny-tiny woman finds a teeny-tiny bone.