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5.0 out of 5 stars Go on you won’t regret it !
Classic, our kids loved this when they were little, not to be confused with the Sean lock version! Funny as it may have been.If you have small kids, gran kids, or younger nices or nephews, and you need a stocking filler it will be money well spent, and if you can get the book called six dinner Sid you will be all set !
5.0 out of 5 stars Satisfied customer
Bought as a gift
5.0 out of 5 stars An exciting read for young children
A great book for all little children.
5.0 out of 5 stars From the clues the author has provided we may suppose that what really happened was that a stray cat came to the door – perhaps
Judith Kerr tells the delightful picture book story for the under-5s of a tiger who invites himself to tea with Sophie and her mother and eats them out of house and home before leaving, never to return. The story is told in the third person from the point of view of an omniscient narrator. But as we shall see the story is really Sophie’s story. It is Sophie’s imaginative interpretation of what we may suppose “really happened”. It is told in her language and within the limitations of her understanding.Through the “willing suspension of disbelief” as Coleridge described the phenomenon by which a reader enters into the imaginative world of a writer, the notion of an English speaking tiger being invited into someone’s home and consuming a large quantity of food and drink is perfectly reasonable and acceptable. It is, however, a basic tenet of all fiction that the world created by an author should be logically coherent. The reader must be able to recognise that what happens in the story is possible within the parameters of the story if not in actual reality. Anything not consistent with the internal logic of the story is either a mistake or a clue to something else going on. There are several such “mistakes” in The Tiger Who Came to Tea. But these mistakes turn out, on closer inspection, to be authorial clues, first to the fact that the story is the product of Sophie’s imagination and, secondly, to enable the reader to reconstruct, partially at least, the story behind the story. The events in the story if told from the mother’s point of view would have been rather different, and mundane.The first clue that all is not what it seems occurs when it is said that the tiger drank “all the water in the tap”. This strange expression can be interpreted to mean simply that the tiger drank a large quantity of tap water directly from the tap in the kitchen sink. However, after the tiger has left and Sophie is preparing to have her bath it is stated that she couldn’t have a bath because “the tiger had drunk all the water in the tap”. This is clearly impossible. There would only have been no water if the local water authorities had turned off the supply but there is no reason to suppose this to have been the case. In the child’s imagination it must have seemed as though the tiger had drunk so much that there could not possibly be any water left for a bath.The second clue is a visual one. Daddy decides that the family should go to a local café to eat. Sophie is already dressed only in her nightdress ready to go to bed, but instead of putting her day clothes back on, she merely puts a coat over her nightdress and a pair of wellingtons to go out on what appears to be a chilly autumn evening. This is too improbable to make sense. It is a clue that the visit to the café occurs only in Sophie’s imagination. There is further evidence for this when we are told that the meal consisted of “sausages and chips and ice cream”. This is a child’s idea of a “lovely supper” but does not seem a likely menu for a family dinner. This is the third clue.The fourth clue occurs the following day. Sophie and her mother go shopping and among the items they purchase is “a very big tin of Tiger Food”. Of course, there is no such thing. If it were possible to buy a tin of tiger food from the supermarket or corner shop, it would imply that semi domesticated tigers are a commonplace in the world created by the author but that would undermine the basis on which the story is founded, viz. that a tiger coming to tea is unique and surprising.The other clues are, first, the language used which is clearly a child’s way of speaking, for example, “Daddy’s beer’; the frequent use of the conjunctions “and” and “but”, and even the onomatopoeic “Owp!” Secondly, there are pictures that do not fit the text of the story. Before the story even begins we see Sophie riding on the back of the tiger in broad daylight. This does not happen in the story but indicates what the child imagines.From the clues the author has provided we may suppose that what really happened was that a stray cat came to the door – perhaps the one in the picture of the family walking to the café that looks like a miniature tiger – and they let him into the house and fed him. This simple incident was exaggerated into Sophie’s imaginative story. The tin of tiger food is just a tin of cat food, in case the creature came back. The pictures where Sophie is showing affection to the tiger perhaps indicates that she is lonely as an only child and perhaps with few friends.If there is a hidden message in the story, it is definitely not aimed at children. There is no authorial voice saying more or less explicitly, “You should behave like the good little girl in my story”. The message is perhaps aimed at the grown ups and is, “Don’t inhibit children’s gift of imagination”. The parents in the story accept Sophie’s version of events without quibble. Reality can wait.
5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely story
Beautiful classic story book
5.0 out of 5 stars Great quality book
Lovely book that I remember from my childhood and bought to read to my little boy. Feels like it's printed on really nice quality paper.
4.0 out of 5 stars Good value
Perfect gift
5.0 out of 5 stars childs book
lovely book
Lovely read
One of the cute story with lovely pictures
Bellissimo
Bel libro anche se un po' piccolo essendo ovviamente un libro per bambini. Io l'ho comprato in realtà, per me stessa! È dolcissimo ed illustrato molto bene. Ottimo prezzo
Ein Kinderbuchklassiker
Als Kind gehörte „Ein Tiger kommt zum Tee“ zu meinen Lieblingsbüchern. Ich hatte die deutsche Übersetzung aus dem Ravensburg Verlag und habe das Buch geliebt. Ich musste es immer wieder vorgelesen bekommen und konnte es schließlich auswendig. Jetzt habe ich das Buch in der englischen Originalversion hier auf Bolo entdeckt und habe mich sehr darüber gefreut. Im englischen Original liest sich das Buch nochmal besser, da der Sprachwitz natürlich viel mehr rüber kommt. Durch die einfache Sprache und die tollen Zeichungen ist das Buch durchaus auch für Kinder geeignet, die Englisch nicht als Muttersprache haben. Mit zusätzlichen Erklärungen bzw. Übersetzungen der Eltern/eines Erwachsenen handelt es sich um ein tolles kindgerechtes Buch, welches ich gerne empfehle. Allerdings würde ich beim Vorlesen für Kinder auf die gedruckte Ausgabe zurückgreifen.Anmerkung: Die Kindle Version ist nicht mit dem Bolo Kindle Gerät kompatibel. Das Buch lässt sich nicht herunterladen. Auf dem iPad funktioniert es ohne Probleme. Da die Zeichnungen farbig sind, ist dies aber ohnehin die schönere Variante das Buch zu lesen.In der deutschen Übersetzung wird das Buch momentan vom Knesebeck Verlag herausgegeben. Mit neuer, näher am englischen Original gehaltener Übersetzung. Ebenfalls sehr empfehlenswert.
Excelente
Meu filho tem 2 anos e adorou a história! Excelente livro! Entrega rápida
Lovely classic
Lovely classic story! Even though some elements feel a bit dated (milk man.. delivery boy..) the story still captures the attention of the children. My son asked me to read it over and over again for over a month.
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Delivery fee of AED 20. Free for orders above AED 200.
Imported From: United Kingdom
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Description:
Reviews:
5.0 out of 5 stars Go on you won’t regret it !
Classic, our kids loved this when they were little, not to be confused with the Sean lock version! Funny as it may have been.If you have small kids, gran kids, or younger nices or nephews, and you need a stocking filler it will be money well spent, and if you can get the book called six dinner Sid you will be all set !
5.0 out of 5 stars Satisfied customer
Bought as a gift
5.0 out of 5 stars An exciting read for young children
A great book for all little children.
5.0 out of 5 stars From the clues the author has provided we may suppose that what really happened was that a stray cat came to the door – perhaps
Judith Kerr tells the delightful picture book story for the under-5s of a tiger who invites himself to tea with Sophie and her mother and eats them out of house and home before leaving, never to return. The story is told in the third person from the point of view of an omniscient narrator. But as we shall see the story is really Sophie’s story. It is Sophie’s imaginative interpretation of what we may suppose “really happened”. It is told in her language and within the limitations of her understanding.Through the “willing suspension of disbelief” as Coleridge described the phenomenon by which a reader enters into the imaginative world of a writer, the notion of an English speaking tiger being invited into someone’s home and consuming a large quantity of food and drink is perfectly reasonable and acceptable. It is, however, a basic tenet of all fiction that the world created by an author should be logically coherent. The reader must be able to recognise that what happens in the story is possible within the parameters of the story if not in actual reality. Anything not consistent with the internal logic of the story is either a mistake or a clue to something else going on. There are several such “mistakes” in The Tiger Who Came to Tea. But these mistakes turn out, on closer inspection, to be authorial clues, first to the fact that the story is the product of Sophie’s imagination and, secondly, to enable the reader to reconstruct, partially at least, the story behind the story. The events in the story if told from the mother’s point of view would have been rather different, and mundane.The first clue that all is not what it seems occurs when it is said that the tiger drank “all the water in the tap”. This strange expression can be interpreted to mean simply that the tiger drank a large quantity of tap water directly from the tap in the kitchen sink. However, after the tiger has left and Sophie is preparing to have her bath it is stated that she couldn’t have a bath because “the tiger had drunk all the water in the tap”. This is clearly impossible. There would only have been no water if the local water authorities had turned off the supply but there is no reason to suppose this to have been the case. In the child’s imagination it must have seemed as though the tiger had drunk so much that there could not possibly be any water left for a bath.The second clue is a visual one. Daddy decides that the family should go to a local café to eat. Sophie is already dressed only in her nightdress ready to go to bed, but instead of putting her day clothes back on, she merely puts a coat over her nightdress and a pair of wellingtons to go out on what appears to be a chilly autumn evening. This is too improbable to make sense. It is a clue that the visit to the café occurs only in Sophie’s imagination. There is further evidence for this when we are told that the meal consisted of “sausages and chips and ice cream”. This is a child’s idea of a “lovely supper” but does not seem a likely menu for a family dinner. This is the third clue.The fourth clue occurs the following day. Sophie and her mother go shopping and among the items they purchase is “a very big tin of Tiger Food”. Of course, there is no such thing. If it were possible to buy a tin of tiger food from the supermarket or corner shop, it would imply that semi domesticated tigers are a commonplace in the world created by the author but that would undermine the basis on which the story is founded, viz. that a tiger coming to tea is unique and surprising.The other clues are, first, the language used which is clearly a child’s way of speaking, for example, “Daddy’s beer’; the frequent use of the conjunctions “and” and “but”, and even the onomatopoeic “Owp!” Secondly, there are pictures that do not fit the text of the story. Before the story even begins we see Sophie riding on the back of the tiger in broad daylight. This does not happen in the story but indicates what the child imagines.From the clues the author has provided we may suppose that what really happened was that a stray cat came to the door – perhaps the one in the picture of the family walking to the café that looks like a miniature tiger – and they let him into the house and fed him. This simple incident was exaggerated into Sophie’s imaginative story. The tin of tiger food is just a tin of cat food, in case the creature came back. The pictures where Sophie is showing affection to the tiger perhaps indicates that she is lonely as an only child and perhaps with few friends.If there is a hidden message in the story, it is definitely not aimed at children. There is no authorial voice saying more or less explicitly, “You should behave like the good little girl in my story”. The message is perhaps aimed at the grown ups and is, “Don’t inhibit children’s gift of imagination”. The parents in the story accept Sophie’s version of events without quibble. Reality can wait.
5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely story
Beautiful classic story book
5.0 out of 5 stars Great quality book
Lovely book that I remember from my childhood and bought to read to my little boy. Feels like it's printed on really nice quality paper.
4.0 out of 5 stars Good value
Perfect gift
5.0 out of 5 stars childs book
lovely book
Lovely read
One of the cute story with lovely pictures
Bellissimo
Bel libro anche se un po' piccolo essendo ovviamente un libro per bambini. Io l'ho comprato in realtà, per me stessa! È dolcissimo ed illustrato molto bene. Ottimo prezzo
Ein Kinderbuchklassiker
Als Kind gehörte „Ein Tiger kommt zum Tee“ zu meinen Lieblingsbüchern. Ich hatte die deutsche Übersetzung aus dem Ravensburg Verlag und habe das Buch geliebt. Ich musste es immer wieder vorgelesen bekommen und konnte es schließlich auswendig. Jetzt habe ich das Buch in der englischen Originalversion hier auf Bolo entdeckt und habe mich sehr darüber gefreut. Im englischen Original liest sich das Buch nochmal besser, da der Sprachwitz natürlich viel mehr rüber kommt. Durch die einfache Sprache und die tollen Zeichungen ist das Buch durchaus auch für Kinder geeignet, die Englisch nicht als Muttersprache haben. Mit zusätzlichen Erklärungen bzw. Übersetzungen der Eltern/eines Erwachsenen handelt es sich um ein tolles kindgerechtes Buch, welches ich gerne empfehle. Allerdings würde ich beim Vorlesen für Kinder auf die gedruckte Ausgabe zurückgreifen.Anmerkung: Die Kindle Version ist nicht mit dem Bolo Kindle Gerät kompatibel. Das Buch lässt sich nicht herunterladen. Auf dem iPad funktioniert es ohne Probleme. Da die Zeichnungen farbig sind, ist dies aber ohnehin die schönere Variante das Buch zu lesen.In der deutschen Übersetzung wird das Buch momentan vom Knesebeck Verlag herausgegeben. Mit neuer, näher am englischen Original gehaltener Übersetzung. Ebenfalls sehr empfehlenswert.
Excelente
Meu filho tem 2 anos e adorou a história! Excelente livro! Entrega rápida
Lovely classic
Lovely classic story! Even though some elements feel a bit dated (milk man.. delivery boy..) the story still captures the attention of the children. My son asked me to read it over and over again for over a month.
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