Tidy Titch

Titch

by Pat Hutchins

When Mary and Peter decide to get rid of the toys, books, and games they have outgrown, Titch finds the perfect place for them--his room. "Deliciously funny...Spare, deftly tuned dialogue and the colorful illustrations quietly amplify the humor."--Kirkus Reviews.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Family, Fiction, Juvenile

Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Pat Hutchins is an English illustrator and writer of children's books.

She won the 1974 Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. The work was The Wind Blew, a picture book in rhyme which she also wrote. It shows how "a crowd of people anxiously chase their belongings" in the wind.

Reviews

[Tarana Begum]

The adorable Titch is back with his new fun Tidy Titch! The books looks at how Titch is able to have such a clean and tidy room but how his siblings find an easier way of getting rid of things from their room to keep it clean.

This book is very interesting to me because I felt that it showed how helpful Titch is by offering to help his sibling with their messy room. However it showed how not only did he help but at the end of it, it showed how messy his room was left. It also made me think that the older siblings were not really setting a good example to Titch thus leading to a messy room for Titch and a nice and clean room for them. An appropriate age for this book would be children aged 5-7 years.

This book can be used, by reading to the whole class and be able to teach children appropriate ways of cleaning their rooms. This can also lead to curriculum support in terms of art as they can draw their own pictures of the right way to tidy up their rooms and may include 12 sentences of what they have drawn. It can also be left inside a classroom for the children to do independent reading to build on the reading skills and practice their phonemes if necessary.

[SaraKat]

This character is cute and I enjoyed the story. It was on my school's pillars of character reading list for responsibility. The main thrust of the responsibility angle was that a child should be responsible for keeping his room tidy. The rooms were mainly just tidy when all the toys were gone, though. It was cute the way Titch wanted all of his siblings' toys.

[Kiyoko]

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[Harriet]

Great for shared reading in EYFS.

[Sue Read]

A wonderfully typical family scenario - why is it that the youngest always gets away with it?!

[Dolly]

This is a fun book that gives older siblings a creative way to clean up their spaces. I like that it shows them culling through their old, outgrown and broken things and getting rid of them - it's always a challenge for parents to get their children to do this. It's a fun story to read aloud and our girls enjoyed it a lot.

[Gwen]

Titch and Daisy is great too!

Short but has a real plot that littles can relate too.

[Jana]

Cute book - When Titch's siblings clean out their rooms, he helps by taking all of the stuff they've outgrown. Now his room is packed with stuff.

[Laura]

For teaching beginning, middle, end. For reading before cleaning.