The Boy and the Tigers

By Helen Bannerman

Book Overview

When a little boy named Rajani ventures into the jungle, he runs into several tigers who make him give them his fine new red coat, blue trousers, purple shoes with crimson linings, and even his green umbrella! But Rajani outsmarts the tigers in the end, in this kinder retelling of Helen Bannerman#146;s Little Black Sambo . New illustrations and non-offensive names and character depictions make this story lovable again.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375827196
• ISBN13: 9780375827198
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Golden Books
• Length: 24 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.7" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 3 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Beautiful Book

This is such a beautiful book! It has wonderful illustrations, and brings back warm memories of eating at a pancake house where they gave out this story when I was a little girl.

outstanding

used this for a read-aloud and all my classes loved the pictures of this timeless tale fellow teachers enjoyed the history in the back as well