The Tiger Child : A Folk Tale from India

Author: Joanna Troughton

Interest age: from c 5 years

Published on 31 October 1996 by Penguin Random House Children's UK (Puffin) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 32 pages
201 x 192 x 3mm | 140g

This lively folk tale from Orissa, India, explains why tigers eat their food uncooked and why cats live with people. The tiger child is sent to fetch some more fire from the village, but on the way he gets distracted by his friends. By the time he gets to the village, he has forgotten what he has been sent to fetch.