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A review by stefaniefrei
The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr
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.