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Mother to Tigers (A Junior Library Guild Selection) by George Ella Lyon; Peter Catalanotto is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

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<p><P><b>You are a Bengal tiger cub,</b><P>one of three &#151; Dacca, Rajpur, Raniganj &#151; abandoned by your mother.<P>You are so cold and thin that someone with kind hands puts you on a heating pad and sits by you for hours, moistening your mouth with milk.<P>When you give a weak cry and look up, there is a human face almost crying too.<P>Your new mother is Helen Delaney Martini, who has already raised a lion cub in her New York apartment. Tigers in the bathtub will be no problem for her and her husband, Fred.<P>This remarkable book &#151; strikingly striped as tigers are, sympathetically spoken as any child could wish &#151; tells the story of Helen Martini, founder of the Bronx Zoo's animal nursery in 1944 and its first woman zookeeper.<br></p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Arresting art illuminates Lyon and Catalanotto's (previously teamed for Who Came Down That Road?) tribute to Helen Martini, founder of the Bronx Zoo's animal nursery. On each spread, mixed-media images on torn-paper panels form jagged, vertical stripes around the white space that encloses the lyrical text, contributing to the drama and sense of urgency. Watercolor paintings are drenched in sunlight while cha

Who reads Mother to Tigers (A Junior Library Guild Selection)?

Author

George Ella Lyon; Peter Catalanotto

Publisher

New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781413132090

Category

science

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.25 / 5 (59 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14