 Cover Illustration | |
| Author | Polly Cameron |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Polly Cameron |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's picture book |
| Published | 1956 (Coward-McCann) |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 36 |
| OCLC | 1394112 |
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A striped cat believes he is a tiger. While his four brothers and sisters live, play, and eat together with a boy and girl in a house, he does things that he thinks tigers do like living alone in the backyard, eating grass, and sleeping in a tree. Later, he goes to a circus, meets a tiger and asks to play with it as "You're a tiger and I'm a tiger". The tiger sets him straight by saying "You? a TIGER? No You're not, .. You're a little cat." On hearing this, the cat is very happy and runs back to the house where he tells everyone that he is a cat and now the cat plays, eats, and sleeps with his brothers and sisters.
Idaho State Journal called it a "delightful fantasy" [1] and in a star review, Kirkus Reviews wrote "Tiger colored pictures, posed with dead pan drama, add a note of gentle ferocity." [2] The Saturday Review called it "a delightful story" and wrote "The stylized illustrations add charm and interest to the tale." [3] Duncan Weller counts it amongst his favorite picture books. [4]
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