Do You See the Tiger?

Is Penny the only one who sees the tiger on the subway train? An imaginative child and her daddy have a very different experience in this tale told in lively verse and bright, expressive illustrations.

The train car stopped and, with a seat now free,
Penny sat on Daddy’s knee . . .
while the tiger, in his neat disguise,
watched Penny with his tigery eyes.

One rainy night, Penny and her daddy take an underground train packed with passengers. As they stand in the crowded car, Penny can’t believe what she’s seeing. A tiger’s tail? A tiger’s paw! No, that’s just a person with a striped glove, assures Daddy. But when they find a seat and Penny has a clearer view, there’s no mistaking the tiger’s foot poking out from under a pant leg. And when this extraordinary tiger makes a sudden, marvelous leap across the floor to rescue a baby’s fallen teddy, Penny can’t help but join in the action! From award-winning creators Philip Ardagh and David Melling comes a glorious celebration of a child’s imagination—and a reminder to keep an eye open for the unexpected.

Philip Ardagh is a prolific writer who has been published in more than forty languages around the world. His books include Bunnies on the Bus, Bunnies in a Boat, and Bunnies in a Sleigh: A Chaotic Christmas Tale!, all illustrated by Ben Mantle. He is also the author of the Eddie Dickens trilogy; High in the Clouds, cowritten with Sir Paul McCartney and Geoff Dunbar; and Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky, which won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, and collaborated with illustrator Elissa Elwick on the Little Adventurers trilogy of picture books and You Can't Count on Dinosaurs. Philip Ardagh lives with his wife and son in England.

David Melling grew up in London and has illustrated for magazines and advertising agencies as well as animated TV and film. He is the creator of a series of picture books about Ruffles the dog, as well as the Hugless Douglas series and The Kiss That Missed, which was short-listed for the Kate Greenaway Medal. The creator of some 150 books printed in more than thirty languages, David Melling lives near Oxford, England, with his wife and their two children.