Maya, Tiger Cub

The story of tiger cubs Maya and her brother, Sameer, is told in a series of double page spreads in landscape format with bled edges, bringing the reader into a close engagement with the Indian forest and some of its inhabitants. The type-face too gives an Indian 'feel' to this story of the tiger cubs, their mother and their escape from danger in the form of a hungry hyena. The illustrations are realistic and texture is skilfully given to the animals' fur and to the grasses and leaves of the forest. The final spread provides a striking silhouette outline of the mother tiger leading her cubs silently into the protective darkness of the forest.