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The tiger who would be king

"Gorgeously illustrated in a large-format album with two gatefolds and a stunning foldout of a jungle at war, The Tiger Who Would Be King is as entertaining as it is wise, as wry as it is passionate. Yoon's humorous images support this beautifully written text with wit and insight, playing up the co...

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Main Author: Thurber, James, 1894-1961 (Author)
Other Authors: Yoon, JooHee, 1989- (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Enchanted Lion Books, 2015.
Edition:First Edition.
Subjects:
Tiger > Juvenile fiction.
Kings and rulers > Succession > Juvenile fiction.
Animals > Juvenile fiction.
Battles > Juvenile fiction.
Picture books for children.
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Summary:"Gorgeously illustrated in a large-format album with two gatefolds and a stunning foldout of a jungle at war, The Tiger Who Would Be King is as entertaining as it is wise, as wry as it is passionate. Yoon's humorous images support this beautifully written text with wit and insight, playing up the comic elements, while showing the pathos as well." --Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm
Audience:[Ages 4 to 8] --Provided by publisher.
ISBN:9781592701827
1592701825
Author Notes:Born in Columbus, Ohio, Thurber was blinded in one eye in a childhood accident. He attended Ohio State University but left without earning a degree. In 1925 he moved to New York City, where he joined the staff of the New Yorker in 1927 at the urging of his friend E. B. White. For the rest of his lifetime, Thurber contributed to the magazine his highly individual pieces and those strange, wry, and disturbing pen-and-ink drawings of "huge, resigned dogs, the determined and sometimes frightening women, the globular men who try so hard to think so unsuccessfully." The period from 1925, when the New Yorker was founded, until the death of its creator-editor, Harold Ross, in 1951, was described by Thurber in delicious and absorbing detail in The Years with Ross (1959).

Of his two great talents, Thurber preferred to think of himself primarily as a writer, illustrating his own books. He published "fables" in the style of Aesop (see Vol. 2) and La Fontaine (see Vol. 2)---usually with a "barbed tip of contemporary significance"---children's books, several plays (two Broadway hits, one successful musical revue), and endless satires and parodies in short stories or full-length works. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," included in My World---and Welcome to It (1942), is probably his best-known story and continues to be frequently anthologized. T. S. Eliot described Thurber's work as "a form of humor which is also a way of saying something serious."

(Bowker Author Biography)

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