Tigress - Softcover
A lyrical account of a mother tiger and her cubs. Moving smooth as a river, her stripy coat bright as fire, mother tiger runs then vanishes in the tall grass. With plate-sized paws and a pink nose the size of your fist, she hunts and swims, cares for her cubs and teaches them all her tiger tricks.
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Nick Dowson, now an English and Drama teacher, has worked as a bracken cutter, a graphic designer, and as one of the dynamite crew for a survey company. Nick lives with his partner in Suffolk. Jane Chapman, who does all her painting in her kitchen and has a 70-year-old tortoise (which is now a family heirloom!), is also the illustrator of the non-fiction bestseller "The Emperor's Egg", Winner of the 2000 TES Junior Information Book Award.
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PreS-Gr. 3. The zoology is as exciting as the story in this action-packed picture book about a mother tiger who nurtures her two young cubs in the forest and prepares them to take off on their own. Chapman's bright, clear, double-page acrylic pictures show the camouflage drama ("Twigs with whiskers? / A tree with a tail? / Or is it a tigress, hiding?"). Then there are the tender close-ups of one mother tiger, her nurturing beautifully captured as, one by one, she carries her cubs with her teeth to a safe den. On each spread, the simple poetic words are in bold type, and small notes in italics add fascinating facts ("Tigers don't have a great sense of smell, but their eyesight is six times better than ours"). Drama increases as she teaches the cubs to hunt, and then must let them go. Brother and sister separate, and the young tigress will one day follow in her mother's path. The combination of fierce predator and gentle parent makes for thrilling science. Hazel Rochman
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- PublisherWalker Bks.
- ISBN 10 1844287424
- ISBN 13 9781844287420
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(2005)
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Jane Chapman (illustrator). A lyrical account of a mother tiger and her cubs. Moving smooth as a river, her stripy coat bright as fire, mother tiger runs then vanishes in the tall grass. With plate-sized paws and a pink nose the size of your fist, she hunts and swims, cares for her cubs and teaches them all her tiger tricks. Illustrator: Jane Chapman. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Children's; Children; ISBN: 1844287424. ISBN/EAN: 9781844287420. Inventory No: 260404. Seller Inventory # 260404
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