This totally delightful tale from India lives up to its reputation of being an old favorite. Originally written in 1899 as a story for her children, Helen Bannerman has crafted a classic children’s story. With updated illustrations that are realistic yet hilarious this, in this story we go to India and learn a bit about Indian culture too. The main character is Babaji who has beautiful new clothes his mother has sewn for him and a fancy umbrella and shoes his father bought for him to match his grand new outfit. As he is proudly out walking one day he runs across a series of tigers but he bargains away all his new clothes to keep from being eaten. Now the tigers argue over who is the grandest tiger in the jungle, each wearing an item of Babaji’s grand new outfit, don’t miss the funny illustrations of tigers wearing shoes on their ears! The arguing tigers leave all their ill-gotten gains (Babaji’s clothes) unguarded as they fight each other for the title; these are some pretty stubborn tigers! But Babaji has the last laugh with a twist at the end! Altogether a true classic tale of tiger tails! Find this in the Easy section under E BAN.
