Eye of the Tiger

Favorite tiger tales:

The Story of Little Babaji--Helen Bannerman/Fred Marcellino

Terrible Tiger--Jack Prelutsky/Arnold Lobel

Tiger, Brahmin, Jackal--Indian folk tale

Tiger's Whisker--Korean folk tale


A vignette:

Lucia was in school, playing with animal puzzle-pieces. Her teacher pointed to the tiger puzzle-piece and asked, "What animal is that?"

Lucia replied, "Zebra."

The teacher said, "Yes, I guess it does sort of look like Simba."

Another vignette, leap-frogging off of the first one:

A different teacher held up a large, talking stuffed-animal based on the television character of Barney the purple dinosaur. The teacher held up the stuffed-animal, saying, "Look! It's Barney! It's Barney!" as she pulled the string. Meanwhile, Barney was babbling about something in a tone much too cheery for the occasion.

Lucia looked at the stuffed-animal with some suspicion. I finally whispered to the teacher, "She doesn't know Barney, but she knows 'dinosaur.'"

"Look, it's a dinosaur," the teacher said.

Lucia regarded the stuffed-animal with more interest. "Rarrrrrw!" she said.