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[ 책 소개 ]
* CBC (Children's Book Council) Children's Choices
* Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award Winner
* A Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
이 책은 새끼 호랑이를 키우는 암컷 호랑이의 생태를 간결한 문장과 사실적인 그림으로 보여줍니다. 위장술에 능한 암컷 호랑이는 조용히 수풀 속을 헤치고 걸어갈 때는 얼룩 줄무늬가 주위 환경과 어울리면서 쉽게 눈에 띄지 않습니다. 암컷 호랑이는 예민한 후각과 청각, 그리고 잘 발달된 시각을 지니고 있습니다. 언제나 조용히 움직이는 암컷 호랑이는 달릴 때도 발자국 소리를 내지 않습니다. 새끼 호랑이들을 혼자서 기르면서, 항상 새끼들에게 안전한 장소를 찾으러 다닙니다. 새로운 은신처로 갈 때는 새끼를 한 마리씩 입으로 물어서 옮깁니다. 새끼 호랑이들은 목의 피부가 늘어나기 때문에 어미 호랑이가 새끼들을 다치지 않게 입으로 물고 옮길 수 있습니다....
이 외에도 이책은 새끼들의 성장, 새끼들의 먹이, 호랑이의 사냥술, 호랑이 가족의 물놀이, 새끼 호랑이들의 분가 등의 내용을 포함하고 있습니다.
[ 서지 정보 ]
Edition: Paperback: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0763633143
ISBN-13: 978-0763633141
책 크기 : 25cm x 23.1cm
[ 영문 서평 ]
Book Description
One of nature’s most magical sights emerges from camouflage in this evocative, informative story about a mother tiger in the wild.
Moving smooth as a river, her stripy coat bright as fire, a mother tiger runs, then vanishes into the tall grass. With plate-sized paws and a pink nose the size of your fist, she hunts and swims, cares for her cubs, and teaches them all her tiger tricks. In a lyrical narrative interspersed with many intriguing facts, Nick Dowson reveals the hidden ways of a wild tigress and her cubs, while Jane Chapman brings the mysterious creatures to rippling, roaring life.
Publishers Weekly
Dowson's supple, informative debut book spotlights a tigress, first viewed stalking through tall grass in search of a new den for her two cubs: "Her fiery, stripy coat seems to vanish like magic." As the cubs grow, they "fight" each other (with sheathed claws) and learn to hunt from their parent. At around 18 months, the young leave to find their own territories. Dowson supplements a poetic narrative ("Bigger than your fist, her pink nose sniffs the air. Her ears turn to listen for the smallest noise. Bright as torches, her large yellow eyes gleam all around") with straightforward facts about tigers, presented in a smaller, italicized font ("Tigers don't have a great sense of smell, but their eyesight is six times better than ours, and they have amazing hearing"). Together, the two textual strains provide a wealth of information about tigers' physical characteristics, behavior and hunting habits. A final note cites disturbing facts, including that fewer than 6,000 tigers are alive today. Eschewing the anthropomorphic style of her Bear Snores On and other works, Chapman delivers lifelike, closely focused renderings of the three tigers, often in convincing motion. On many pages, the text appears against subtly patterned backdrops that complement the artwork; occasional vignettes of the cubs prowling across these backdrops add a note of drama.
School Library Journal
Handsome, realistic paintings record highlights in a tigress's cycle of raising two cubs to self-sufficiency. A simple, informative text laced with additional data in smaller print describes her maternal care, the cubs' growth, and the development of their hunting skills. A paragraph regarding the tiger's endangered status is appended. For curious children not satisfied with this colorful introduction to an elegant feline, Jenny Markert's Tigers (The Child's World, 1998) might round out the experience, and for those whose aesthetic tastes have been whetted by Chapman's graceful illustrations, Ted Lewin's superb Tiger Trek (S & S, 1990; o.p.) may be just the thing. Enlightening and attractive, the Tigress is a pleasure for the mind and eye.
Kirkus Reviews
A tigress raises two cubs in this brief, poetic picture book that lends itself equally well to a read-aloud or independent reading. Sensuous present-tense text presents the tigress as mother, hunter, and, above all, force of nature. Chapman's bright, full-bleed acrylics make the most of the text, lush spreads giving equal weight to beauty and savagery (a stop-motion kill is most effective), the primary type set against faint paisley patterns that move in and out of the jungle background. Italicized snippets provide hard facts that supplement the more emotive narrative: "[The cubs] are too small to walk far, so the tigress uses tooth power" is glossed by, "Tiger cubs have loose skin on their necks, which makes them easy to lift." The whole takes itself seriously as nonfiction, an index (with a little lesson in how to use it) providing access to the paged text that precedes it. A brief author's note gives a few more facts about tigers and their current endangered status today, and it is, refreshingly, as easy for primary graders to read as the main narrative. A lovely, solid package.
Children's Literature
The tigress, pictured on the jacket with her cubs, appears almost frighteningly real, or perhaps just affectionately natural. In the simple, brief, poetic text, she stalks half-hidden in the leaves and shadows, searching until she finds a safe new den for her baby cubs. While the tigress seeks and catches a wild pig for the family food, without the bloodshed shown, the cubs watch, play, then splash with her afterward in a cooling lake. By the time they are eighteen months old, the cubs are ready to go on their individual ways, vanishing into the midnight forest. While we follow the story of this tiger family, there are added notes in smaller italics on each double page to inform us of factual information relating to their lives. The double-page acrylic paintings supply appropriate jungle settings, bathing them in filtered sunlight or in moonlight blues. Both the vigorous maternal actions of the mother and the gentle gestures of the family interrelationships are portrayed to stimulate our emotions. Above all, the physical beauty of these endangered animals is depicted for our sympathetic attention. There is an added note about the threat of their extinction, along with a useful index.
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