Imagine You Are a Tiger

It's seldom that I'm excited by a non-fiction book or feel I want to share one with a whole class as much as I would a good story. But here is such a one. From the opening invitation 'Imagine you are a tiger', it draws readers and listeners into the world of a growing tiger cub; a world of shade and shimmering heat, hunger and hunting, fear and feasting, camouflage and cunning. Karen Wallace carefully crafts a beautifully controlled drama through her present-tense telling, her use of short, finely honed sentences and figurative language. Every line of Peter Melnyczuk's evocative illustrations has been just as skilfully employed to produce some stunning images. This is an immensely powerful book; not only does it offer accurate, scientific information, but also it educates the mind, the eye, the ear and, most importantly, the imagination.