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beecheralyson's review against another edition
3.0
Sometimes it is a challenge to separate current day thoughts and practices with the thoughts and practices in a children's book from several decades ago. A tiger comes to tea, and eats & drinks up all the food, etc. The ending left me a little puzzled?!
shahrun's review against another edition
4.0
What a delightful, imaginative and random story. The prospect of a wild animal visiting for a meal would delight most children. I love the illustrations.
stefaniefrei's review against another edition
3.0
Not my cup of tea, excuse the pun
Being German, I sometimes “hit a wall” about using English when it comes to things that everybody who has grown up in Britain or the US or wherever English-mother tongue knows or did or experienced.... like, we do not have high school, but several different school forms for secondary school, and of course, nursery rhymes are very much different. Try and read Agatha Christie books without English nursery rhymes!
So, I got to the point to try and read a bunch of “typical” childhood books and I knew Judith Kerr from her autobiographical trilogy about how the family fled Nazi-Germany, books that were highly popular when I was a young teen.
The book is cute and made me grin – I have a kindle version where you have small videos for the different scenes which is quite funny. I might have been a particular child, but I guess I would not have liked this as a toddler, though – I did not like books with anthropomorphic animals. Animals talking was okay with me if they talked to other animals, but not to humans. I still do not like fantasy or S/F, so this stayed with me.
Uhm – sweet, but not my kind of choice even for a gift still? I constantly waited for the tiger to swallow up Sophie and her mummy and daddy. Too many of Grimms’ ghastly tales, I suppose.
Being German, I sometimes “hit a wall” about using English when it comes to things that everybody who has grown up in Britain or the US or wherever English-mother tongue knows or did or experienced.... like, we do not have high school, but several different school forms for secondary school, and of course, nursery rhymes are very much different. Try and read Agatha Christie books without English nursery rhymes!
So, I got to the point to try and read a bunch of “typical” childhood books and I knew Judith Kerr from her autobiographical trilogy about how the family fled Nazi-Germany, books that were highly popular when I was a young teen.
The book is cute and made me grin – I have a kindle version where you have small videos for the different scenes which is quite funny. I might have been a particular child, but I guess I would not have liked this as a toddler, though – I did not like books with anthropomorphic animals. Animals talking was okay with me if they talked to other animals, but not to humans. I still do not like fantasy or S/F, so this stayed with me.
Uhm – sweet, but not my kind of choice even for a gift still? I constantly waited for the tiger to swallow up Sophie and her mummy and daddy. Too many of Grimms’ ghastly tales, I suppose.
centurylore's review against another edition
5.0
one of my favourite books from my childhood! so many great memories reading this
danileah07's review against another edition
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
2.0
oanh_1's review against another edition
2.0
I find the story perplexing, and I keep expecting the tiger to eat Sophie and her mum.
Baby enjoys it. I think she would prefer we had sausages, chips and ice cream for dinner, too.
Baby enjoys it. I think she would prefer we had sausages, chips and ice cream for dinner, too.
jadejade's review against another edition
5.0
Tonight's goodnight story is brought to you by The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr. The tiger is so ravenous that it consumes the town's water supply; there is no water for a bath after this incident. I assume the tiger had to make a pit stop afterwards.
sean67's review against another edition
3.0
Lesson: Do not entertain a tiger for tea, they are not the best companions for such an event.
Bonkers book with some entertainment amongst all the malarky.
Bonkers book with some entertainment amongst all the malarky.