The Tiger Who Came To Tea
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"The Tiger Who Came To Tea" is a short children's story, first published in 1968, written and illustrated by Judith Kerr. The book concerns a girl called Sophie, her mother, and an anthropomorphised tiger who interrupts their afternoon tea. The book remains extremely popular[1] forty years after it was first published, and a theatrical adaptation of the story has been produced. A Facebook fan page dedicated to the book has over 20,000 fans as of July 2010.[2]
The original artwork for the book is held by Seven Stories, a children's literature centre in the U.K.
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[edit] Plot
A little girl named Sophie is having tea with her mother in their kitchen. Soon they are joined for tea by a tiger who drinks all the tea, eats all the food in the house and drinks everything, even draining the water from the taps, so that Sophie cannot have her bath. Then he leaves. Sophie's father comes home and suggests that they all go out and have a lovely meal in a cafe. The following day Sophie and her mother go out to buy some more food, including a big tin of tiger food. But the tiger never returns.
[edit] Inspiration
Kerr first invented the story after visiting a zoo with her three year old daughter and told it many times before making it into a book.[3] The book took a year to write and illustrate. The Tiger Who Came to Tea is one of the best selling children's books of all time.[4]
[edit] Foreign language editions
This book has been produced in Braille. It is also published in German with the title Ein Tiger kommt zum Tee. It has been adapted into Welsh, entitled Y Teigr a Ddaeth i De. In this version, the little girl is renamed Catrin.
[edit] Theatre adaptation
The book has been adapted for stage with music by David Wood. The production features the actors Devon Black, Alan Atkins and Abbey Norman.[5]
[edit] See also
- Mog (Judith Kerr), a series of children's books by the same author.
[edit] References
- ^ Guest, Katy (6 September 2009). "Judith Kerr: If Carlsberg made grannies...". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/judith-kerr-if-carlsberg-made-grannies-1782542.html. Retrieved 2009-09-06.
- ^ "The Tiger Who Came to Tea". Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Tiger-Who-Came-To-Tea/74238401032?ref=nf&v=wall. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
- ^ Eves, Sue (2008-06-09). "Judith Kerr and the Tiger Who Came to Tea". http://www.sueeves.com/2008/06/judith-kerr-and-tiger-who-came-to-tea.html. Retrieved 2009-02-24.
- ^ "The Tiger Who Came to Tea". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00c5zsg. Retrieved 2009-02-24.
- ^ "The Tiger Who Came to Tea". The Stage. http://www.thestage.co.uk/listings/production.php/30925/the-tiger-who-came-to-tea. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
[edit] External links
- Browse inside The Tiger Who Came to Tea at HarperCollins Publishers
- The Tiger Who Came To Tea, read with illustrations from the book
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