By Eve Bunting,David Frampton

Esteemed writer Eve Bunting brings all her perception, empathy, and storytelling ability to this strong allegorical story, set within the streets of an unnamed urban and illustrated with outstanding woodcuts. Danny, new to city, is proud while a glittery-eyed tiger invitations him for a experience. He climbs up onto the tiger’s titanic again, and jointly they cruise the local. each person supplies them respect—shopkeepers and passersby, even different children. Danny feels strong and masses older than ten. quickly, even though, he realizes it isn’t recognize humans believe for him and the tiger—it’s worry. And whilst he comes to a decision to get down off the tiger’s again, he discovers it’s much tougher than hiking on.
Whether the tiger is interpreted to symbolize gangs, medications, or anything else altogether, this poetically instructed, dramatically illustrated publication is bound to impress discussions approximately temp-tation, peer strain, and conformity.

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