The Tiger Who Came to Tea

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Editorial reviews

The Independent
`A modern classic.'

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Junior Magazine
`This book has enduring charm and young children will delight in the preposterous notion of a tiger creating mayhem in the house.'

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Dorothy Butler, Babies Need Books.
`Near perfection of form is embellished by clear, expressive illustrations. The pace is exactly right, the resolution totally satisfying.'

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Synopsis
This classic story of Sophie and her extraordinary tea-time guest has been loved by millions of children since it was first published over 30 years ago. Now a new generation will enjoy this beautiful reformatted edition! The doorbell rings just as Sophie and her mummy are sitting down to tea. Who could it possibly be? What they certainly don't expect to see at the door is a big furry, stripy tiger! This modern classic picture book is perfect for reading aloud, or for small children to read to themselves time and again. All artwork has been re-originated and a fresh design approach has been used for this reformatted edition.

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From the Back Cover
The doorbell rings just as Sophie and her mummy are sitting down to tea. Who could it possibly be? What they certainly don't expect to see at the door is a big furry, stripy tiger!

The multi-million selling picture book no childhood should be without.

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About the Author
Judith Kerr was born on 14 June 1923 in Berlin but escaped from Hitler's Germany with her parents and brother in 1933 when she was nine years old. Her father was a drama critic and a distinguished writer whose books were burned by the Nazis. The family passed through Switzerland and France before arriving finally in England in 1936. Judith went to eleven different schools, worked in the Red Cross during the war, and won a scholarship to the Central School of Arts and Crafts in 1945. Since then she has worked as an artist, a BBC television scriptwriter and, for the past thirty years, as author and illustrator of children's books.
Her three autobiographical novels are based on her early wandering years (which against all the odds she greatly enjoyed), her adolescence in London during the war, and finally on a brief return to Berlin as a young married woman. The stories have been internationally acclaimed and, to the author's considerable satisfaction, have done particularly well in Germany where they are sometimes used as an easy introduction to a difficult period of Germany history.
Judith Kerr is also the creator of the much loved Mog picture book series as well as other favourites including `The Tiger Who Came To Tea'.
She is married to the writer Nigel Kneale. Their daughter Tracy makes puppets for films and their son Matthew is an acclaimed novelist.

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-07-07 rating:
a great tradition yet quirky book

my two sons aged 3 and a half and aged 15 months both sit in awe of this book! there is a traditional feel with the mummy making this fantasic tea which she is happy to share with this stranger at the door - a tiger! then there is the crazy element that you would let a tiger into your house - the tiger never roars at all and amazingly my very vocal boys never roar when they see him in this book as he is a friendly tiger.
this book is simply great, a must have for parents and children.

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review by: date: 2008-05-26 rating:
Classic title
My little daughter loved this at bedtime. The moral - that which appears on the outside to be frightening and threatening need not be so upon examination - is such an important one for children to appreciate; an antidote to the prevailing scare culture where middle-class children are increasingly driven everywhere in a vehicle and kept from playing out on the street and taught to shun strangers.

A gentle, warm story with ditto illustrations. Magic!

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review by: 10-year-old-reviewer date: 2008-05-01 rating:
BRILL BOOK
One day, there was a knock at the door of Sophie's house, just as she and her mummy were going to have tea, but the milkman had already come and it was not the day for the boy from the grocer; it could not be daddy because he was coming home a little bit later and he had his keys. Who was the mysterious being at the door? Find out in this book...

This book is wonderful: the illustrations are vivid and bright; the vocabulary range is good for children aged from 4 - 7 and the story line is delightful. It is a truly superb book.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book with my brother (who enjoyed it as well) and would rate it, for myself and on behalf of my brother, 10/ 10.

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review by: date: 2008-04-29 rating:
"But the tiger didn't just take one cake, he took all the cakes on the plate!"
I bought the anniversary edition (with touchy-feely tiger stripes) for my son who is almost three and we have been reading it constantly. The story is easy to follow and features a loveable tiger who turns up for tea and ends up eating everything in the house. I remember enjoying this book when I was at school 25 years ago. It hasn't changed one bit.


review by: date: 2008-03-17 rating:
Very sweet, we like it already
A friend bought this book for our son's Christmas because she said she had loved it herself as a child. We just dug it out this week, and already our little boy (20 months) is hooked. He loves identifying all the bits & bobs in the pictures (for some reason the brushes were especially fascinating tonight), and I like speculating what on earth inspired Judith Kerr to write the story, because it is very very odd.

Our household is terribly old-fashioned in that my husband works and I stay at home to look after our son, and we do like to go out for dinner sometimes, so this book is especially appealing to us because it sort of reflects our life. I just hope that if any tigers do come to tea, they will be as polite and smiley as the tiger in this book!

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