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<!-- EDIT BELOW THIS LINE -- "Tom Tit Tot" is a children's book written by Evaline Ness. It was published by Aladdin in August 1, 1997. Tom Tit Tot was a caldecott medal honor book.

DESCRIPTION:"Tom Tit Tot" 10 x 7.8 x 0.1 inches 32 pages. Aladdin (August 1, 1997)tells of a fairytale about a young women trying to live another day.

Synopsis: This story is about a young women in a situation that costs her life. She has to spin five skeins everyday for the king. This man has married her but told her if it is not done he will kill her.This all happened due to her mother covering the fact that her daughter ate five pies. The king heard and asked her to repeat it again. The mother didn't want him to know that her daughter ate the pies. Therefore she said that her daughter has spun five skeins. The king was very impressed.This is relates to Rumpelstiltskin.

Evaline Ness As illustrator of picture books she was one of three Caldecott Medal runners-up each year from 1964 to 1966 and she won the 1967 Medal for Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine, which she also wrote. In 1972 she was the U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's illustrators.