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Thurber, James

The Tiger Who Would Be King

40 pp. | Enchanted Lion | October, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59270-182-7 $18.95
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Joohee Yoon. Thurber's fable, first published in The New Yorker in 1956, describes the futility of war. A tiger decides that he is the king of beasts and so attacks the lion who fights back to defend his crown. Yoon's striking green-and-orange illustrations, with their large, heavy shapes and irregular compositions, express the confusion of war and the weight of the topic.
Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

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