A review by whatsthestorywishbone
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller

4.0

Listened to this with Reid at his insistence for our Newbery bingo. I thought it might be too sad/old for him and tried to steer him away but surprisingly he got 99% of it. The ending of the tiger thread of the book is a bit abstract and a little hard to grasp even for me, but what this book does REALLY well is understand a introverted person’s inner workings. I really related to Lily. It also tackles cancer and death in a very straightforward way, that while unavoidably sad is also hopeful and realistic. The reader of the audiobook was amazing. I am glad I didn’t try to read this aloud as I would have pronounced all the Korean words incorrectly. The only reason I gave it 4 stars is because I felt like there were some gaps in the tiger stories, but maybe that just makes them more true to the ramblings of bedtime stories?