Tiger, Tiger, Growing Up - Hardcover

Joan Hewett

3.65

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395615836 ISBN 13: 9780395615836

Publisher: Clarion Books, 1993

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Full-color photographs and a simple text follow Tara, a newborn Bengal tiger cub, from her first days in the zoo nursery to her release into the outdoor enclosure housing other adult tigers.

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From School Library Journal:

Grade 1-4-- Koko and All Ball, move over. Here is a new kitten to charm young readers. Tara is a Bengal tiger cub raised in captivity at Marine World Africa in California. Through brilliant, full-color photos and an easy, narrative text, readers witness her growth from newborn cub to adult tiger. The photography is full of texture, color, and life. Some shots of Tara as a kitten are positively endearing. The tiger's life story is related with factual attention to behavior, development, and care, enlivened with humorous details about her idiosyncracies and the humans' affectionate reactions to her. The endangered status of the Bengal tiger is mentioned. Consistent in style with the author's When You Fight the Tiger (1984; o.p.) and Watching Them Grow (1979, both Little; o.p.), this title has a comparatively condensed text and a much lower reading level. One disturbing omission is an explanation for Tara being taken from her mother at five days old. But the positive, loving treatment of the subject prevails in this excellent introduction to wildlife preservation. --Valerie Lennox, Jacksonville Public Library, FL
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From Kirkus Reviews:

From the time when, at a week old, she's given to her human foster mother (Mary) until nine months later, when she joins the adult tigers in their moated compound at Marine World Africa USA (in Vallejo, California), the experiences of Tara, a Bengal tiger cub, are depicted in a straightforward text and dozens of color photos. Hewett explains how the tigers are raised ``to accept people as their friends and protectors''; at night, Tara goes home with Mary, who keeps her in a playpen, plays with her, and teaches her to be gentle and affectionate. As Tara gets older, her experiences broaden; she even visits a classroom. As far as it goes, it's an appealing account, though there's a curious silence on why the cubs are raised by humans, what has become of the 60 Mary has raised, and what role (if any) the process has in preserving the species. The photos are outstanding--blown up to fill the generously sized pages or in delightful sequences of related frames, they present the little tiger as a lithe, healthy specimen and an enchanting personality. (Nonfiction. 5-10) -- Copyright �1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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