"The Tiger Who Came To Tea" is a short children's story, first published in 1968 (OCLC 440492), by Judith Kerr. It is about a little girl named Sophie. Soon they are joined for tea by a tiger who drinks all the tea, eats all the food in the house and drinks everything, even draining the water from the taps, so that Sophie cannot have her bath. Then he leaves. Sophie's father comes home and suggests that they all go out and have a lovely meal in a...
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"The Tiger Who Came To Tea" is a short children's story, first published in 1968 (OCLC 440492), by Judith Kerr. It is about a little girl named Sophie. Soon they are joined for tea by a tiger who drinks all the tea, eats all the food in the house and drinks everything, even draining the water from the taps, so that Sophie cannot have her bath. Then he leaves. Sophie's father comes home and suggests that they all go out and have a lovely meal in a cafe. The following day Sophie and her mother go out to buy some more food, including a big tin of tiger food. But the tiger never returns.
Kerr first invented the story after visiting a zoo with her three year old daughter and told it many times before making it into a book. The book took a year to write and illustrate. The Tiger Who Came to Tea is one of the best selling children's books of all time.
This book has been produced in Braille. It is also published in German with the title Ein Tiger kommt zum Tee. It has been adapted into Welsh...
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