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Auntie Tiger

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we recently checked this out from the library, and I am just on Amazon looking for more titles from the same author. I have to say that we love this book at my house - but we are really used to these themes -
think Little Red Riding Hood (swallows grandma and red riding hood whole and then gets belly cut open to release them, unharmed) - because that is exactly what this book is like, except with 2 sisters who learn a really great lesson, and are the heroines of the story - strong and brave. We are really into the old fairy tales at my house. I don't like the watered down versions of these. It is my experience that kids really feel comforted by these cut and dry tales where good triumphs over evil (the death of the tiger)...but we also know what drowning is, so that wasn't a question I was forced to answer.
This book is probably only for parents and kids who are used to traditional fairy tales. If you are, this is a wonderful book, and I highly recommend it.

This is a horrible plot for young children. This tiger ends up eating one of the sisters and then when the other sister runs up a tree, the tiger asks her to drown the baby birds and give them to her for food. The sister then pours water down onto the tiger and into her mouth and drowns the tiger ("Mommy, what does drown mean?" is the question I had to answer, among many others.) She then cuts the belly of the tiger open to reveal her sister alive and dripping with goo. I can't imagine why anyone would think this is appropriate for children.