Camp Tiger

Name: Camp Tiger
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Susan Choi
ISBN: 9781980051800

Author: Susan Choi

Narrator: Michael Crouch

Unabridged: 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/11/2019

Categories: Children's Fiction, Sports Stories, Animal Stories

Synopsis

Imagination meets reality in this poetic and tender ode to childhood, illustrated by Caldecott Honor winner, John Rocco. Every year, a boy and his family go camping at Mountain Pond. Usually, they see things like an eagle fishing for his dinner, a salamander with red spots on its back, and chipmunks that come to steal food while the family sits by the campfire. But this year is different. This year, the boy is going into first grade, and his mother is encouraging him to do things on his own, just like his older brother. And the most different thing of all . . . this year, a tiger comes to the woods. With lyrical prose and dazzling art, Pulitzer Prize finalist Susan Choi and Caldecott-honor winning artist John Rocco have created a moving and joyful ode to growing up.

About Susan Choi

Susan Choi is the author of the novels My Education, American Woman, A Person of Interest, and The Foreign Student. Her work has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award and winner of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award and the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction. With David Remnick, she co-edited Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker. She lives in Brooklyn.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Hannah on February 23, 2019

Wild and wondrous! Camp Tiger reads like Calvin and Hobbes adapted to a literary picture book about growing up. A boy and his family go on their annual camping trip. This year brings new surprises - lots of firsts for the boy who is coming of age and a mysterious camp visitor: a tiger! Glorious illu......more

Goodreads review by Calista on December 10, 2020

There is magic in this book. It's a rather simple story, a family goes camping the last time for the season in September. They know the place. A boy is about to go into 1st grade and he doesn't want things to change. As they are setting up camp this talking Bengal tiger joins them. I'm not sure exact......more

Goodreads review by Stacy on June 05, 2019

I don't think that I quite understand what this book is supposed to be... but the illustrations are cool.......more

Goodreads review by Sandy on July 08, 2019

I don’t want to understand it, I loved it! To fully understand it, would take away some of the glamour of this children’s book. No overthinking on my end, this little boy had a fabulous end to his summer and he’s ready for first grade. He’ll be making a big transition this fall from kindergarten to......more

Goodreads review by Brittany on June 19, 2019

Some of the illustrations are truly spectacular, but I could have used more clarity for the story itself. I think the tiger is meant to be imaginary, but the way the young boy's parents behave isn't always consistent with that. Even though the illustrations would be great for a read aloud, I'm not s......more