about the book
Bored with propriety? Tired of wearing stuffy dress clothes? Do you just want to have fun?
Mr. Tiger feels your pain. Look, they’ve got him in a suit coat and top hat! How boring and uncomfortable! All the other animals in the city dress the same, like people did in Victorian times. It’s unbearable!
Mr. Tiger feels the need for looseness, for fun, for the wild side! So Mr. Tiger lets out a ROAR, a LOUD ONE, shocking every other properly dressed animal in sight, then rips off his clothes and heads for the wilderness, where he can be himself.
What a magnificent idea. He loves the wilderness! But, what if he gets lonely all by himself?
about the author
Peter Brown grew up in Hopewell, New Jersey, which he says is a great place if you love poison ivy and mosquitoes.
His father worked for NASA, designing cameras that went up in space. Astronomy and telescopes played a big part in Peter’s childhood. He also loved to draw and spent a lot of time sketching animals and running from them.
Peter’s grandfather was not a professional artist, but he loved to paint, and he taught Peter that creating art was a good use of his time. Peter also had a great high school art teacher, “Doc” O’Boyle, who showed Peter that, with hard work, he could possibly become “a real-deal artist.”
At the Art Center College of Design, Peter studied drawing, painting, writing, and signing on for huge student loans. He decided making picture books would be a good way to pay off the loans, so he moved to New York City.
He painted backgrounds for animated TV shows, but he finally got a book deal. He loves creating picture books because he can tell most of the story with his illustrations. He says he has a hard time thinking up the right words for the text part! Peter lives his “artsy” life in Brooklyn, New York.
Sources:
Author Website
Author interview : SCBWI
Author Page : Amazon
Also by Peter Brown:
My Teacher Is a Monster! (No, I Am Not.) Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. 2014.
You Will Be My Friend! Little, Brown and Company. 2011.
Children Make Terrible Pets. Little, Brown and Company. 2010.
The Curious Garden. Little, Brown and Company. 2009.
The Fabulous Bouncing Chowder. Little, Brown and Company. 2007.
Chowder. Little, Brown and Company. 2006.
Flight of the Dodo. Little, Brown and Company. 2005.
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