Don’t Wake the Tiger by Nathan Thoms, illustrated by Carles Ballestros. INTERACTIVE BOARD BOOK. Abrams Appleseed, 2017. $8. 9781419724732
BUYING ADVISORY: Pre-K - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
On each page the monkey reminds the reader to not wake the sleeping creature!
Thoms' second book of this type doesn’t work quite as well as Meet Happy Bear did. The way the monkey reacts, I kept expecting each animal to be angry when they wakened, but each animal had a smile on their face instead. So why was the monkey so anxious? Then at the end the monkey goes to sleep, leaving the reader alone rather abruptly. It just felt weird. Little kids will have fun turning the pages and making the eyes open and close.
Cindy, Middle School Librarian, MLS
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