Tiger Trail - Hardcover

Kay Winters was a classroom teacher, college instructor, and consultant for the American International Schools before she began her writing career. Her books for children include Did You See What I Saw?: Poems About School, The Teeny Tiny Ghost, Who's Haunting the Teeny Tiny Ghost?, and several chapter books. Kay and Laura collaborated on Wolf Watch, which was an American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists" and a Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year. Kay lives in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, with her husband, and she frequently speaks at conferences and schools.

Ages 4-8. This attractive picture book, with gorgeous wildlife paintings and dramatic narration by a bold mother tiger, is a great choice for classroom units on animals. Hard-working mom elegantly describes how she cares for her newborn kits, providing them with her milk, cleaning their small striped faces with her rough tongue, quietly carrying them off to a new home when she spies a leopard lurking near their den. Then she must feed herself. Exciting scenes depict the hunt for prey, and as the cubs grow, they join in the action. Regan's beautifully rendered lifelike oil and gouache illustrations document the kits' amazing transformation from helpless newborns to spunky cubs to independent tigers. All full-color, double-page spreads, the pictures are highly detailed and will invite repeated browsing. Lauren Peterson
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