2016 Book Award Shortlist
‘A Tiger Tale’ by Holly Webb
About the book:
A moving story about coping with loss from bestselling author Holly Webb and illustrated by Catherine Rayner. Kate’s grandfather has died and she’s missing him desperately. Her Mum wants Kate to talk about it, but it only makes Kate angry. Granddad has gone and he’s never coming back. At least she has her toy tiger, Amos, to keep her company. It was a present from Granddad, and somehow holding him close makes Granddad seem less far away. But she doesn’t expect Amos to turn into a real tiger – a big, comforting, friendly tiger who smells of Granddad, and sounds like him too.
About the Author:
Holly Webb is the best-selling author of lots of brilliant books for children.
She read Classics at Cambridge and worked as a children’s book editor for five years before she began writing for children.
She is particularly well known for her animal stories, like Lost in the Snow and the Molly’s Magic and Animalmagic series. Look out too for Victorian crime caper Maisie Hitchins and fantasy adventure Emily Feather. For older readers, don’t miss the Rose and Lily books, about magical girls and their adventures.
Holly’s other standalone novels, Looking For Bear, A Cat Called Penguin and The Chocolate Dog have sold over 30,000 copies as well as A Tiger Tale, which tells the moving story of a child learning to cope with loss.
Holly now lives in Reading with her husband, three sons and cat.
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My Great Granny died in October and I thought I was fine with that; but then I read this book. The way Kate connected to her grandad reminded me of the connection me and my Great Granny had. This upset me but made me realise what a great life she had. I would so very very much recommend this to anyone who needs a book to read.
Granddad dies of black tea which for me is odd. I think it will be more suitable for younger children as Kate and Amos (her Tiger) have a very wonderful adventure. I really recommend this for 10 year olds and under.
This book is quite confusing at first but then you get used to it. I really liked this books so if you like sad stories, read this.
It was sad because at the start the granddad died but Kate had a toy tiger called Amos. Kate’s sister has friends but it’s hard for Kate to make friends. The part I liked is when Kate took Amos to school. I was happy in some parts of the book. It was also sad in parts in the book
I think that this is a family story for all ages. Very emotional and a great loving story.Quite mysterious story and has lots of little twists,although i have a question was Kate imagining the tiger or not?
This book is great love how she thinks the tiger comes alive but actually it is just a cat. If you make another book I would recommend you show how she finds Amos.