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CRITICAL APPRECIATION

Title: Tiger Boy

Author and Illustrator: Mitali Perkins

Date of Publication: 2015

Neel’s parents want him to win a
scholarship, and go to a big city to

study. But Neel doesn’t want to leave
his beloved Sundarbans, with it’s

beautiful trees and it’s magnificent
tigers. Neel soon finds out a tiger cub

goes missing from the reserve.

The evil Gupta who is a newcomer in
Sunderban wants to sell the cub and

sets his people to search for it. Neel Mitali Perkins’ style seems more like a
and his sister Rupa are determined to moral based story. Perkins targeted

find the cub and take it to safety readersvary from 6-12 or 15-25 years.

before Gupta and his goons find it. In Some books are made for children while
terms of organization this book is very others are for a more mature and older

articulated and well split out. The audience. This book seems like a crowd
chapters all give small but useful pleaser since it has been able to grab

pieces of plot to create the big multiple awards. This story tackles
picture. All of the chapters end with different sorts of realistic problems

you left on the edge of your seats. which the elder audience would enjoy
There is one main event in each while it has an adventurous and slightly

chapter and it’s quite in an organized humorous touch which kids would enjoy.
manner, these events go from minor

to major and a smooth transition is -Raeesha Syangden, VB
seen.