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PRESCHOOL

Ravishankar, Anushka

Tiger on a Tree

48 pp. | Farrar | March, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-374-37555-0 $$15.00

(2) PS Illustrated by Pulak Biswas. In this Indian import with a spare, circular plot and deft use of language, a young tiger jumps into a stream and gets into a scrape: he confronts a goat, which scares him up a tree; then he's captured by a large group of men. After a crisp debate, the tiger is sent back across the stream to the shore where it all began. The two-color art is as bold and evocative as that of Glen Rounds.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2004