There's a Tiger in the Garden

by Lizzy Stewart

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Genres: Picture Books, Animals, Childrens, Adventure, Nature, Gardening, Fantasy

30 pages, Board book

First published January 1, 2016

About the author

Lizzy Stewart is a British illustrator and author currently based in London. She has written and illustrated various books for children and adults. Her debut full-length illustrated novel Alison was published in 2022. She teaches illustration at Goldsmiths University and has also taught courses on behalf of the National Portrait Gallery.

Reviews

[Hilary · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice illustrations and an enjoyable story about being bored indoors and getting outside to look at nature and use your imagination. It's good to see stories about children being outdoors, using their imaginations and playing without toys.

[sevdah · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don't think I've ever reviewed a picture book on Goodreads even if I adore reading them because there's no point of flooding my profile with lists of them. But this one! Oh gosh. Couldn't resist recommending this beautiful, funny, warm, imaginative story to anyone looking for a good picture book to read with a favourite kid or by themselves. The artwork alone is gorgeous and something I wish I had around when a kid but in combination with the story of a little girl exploring her grandma's garden - and her own imagination - it's simply out to steal your heart. A children's book at its very best. Don't miss it, a true gem.

[Tasha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Listening to Tom Hardy read this on CBeebies Bedtime Stories. This one was wonderful, especially Tom doing the different characters.

They missed a trick with Tiger King madness by not signing off "Goodnight all you cool cats and kittens" instead of "Goodnight Tigers"!

[Filipa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this book with my nephew a while back and I loved this story: it's a true testament to the power of imagination and I'm sure I would have loved this story if I had read it as a kid. Great reading for the little ones.

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ah, my first #TomHardyReads! What a delight to hear this brave tale from such a wonderful reader!

And yes, for all of you out there wondering, you can find a tiger in your garden…if you look hard enough, that is. 😉

Sleep tight, everybody.

#TomHardyReads

🥰🥱😴💤❤️❤️❤️

[Mathew · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nora is bored. She's been playing over at Grandma's house and now she's found that there really is nothing to do. Grandma encourages to explore the garden and seek out, among other things a tiger that has been living in there. Although Nora says she's too old for this kind of play, she begrudgingly goes outside and soon discovers a world she had not seen before.

This lovely picturebook will encourage readers to look carefully and question how much Nora knows is going on around her. Stewart's illustrations encourage the younger reader to spot the hidden clues and pathways in the book whereas, for the older reader perhaps, there is a chance for an extended conversation over what has been imagined and what has not. A lovely debut.

[Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nora is bored at Grandma's house, and Grandma urges Nora to explore her garden where she will find dragonflies as big as birds, plants that can swallow you whole, a grumpy polar bear who likes fishing, and even a tiger. Reluctantly Nora heads to the garden and she is astonished to find that all of those things are lingering there.

A story that stretches the line between real and imaginary in a fun way.

[Shelby Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

There's a Tiger in the Garden is a creative fantasy story about Nora's visit to her grandmother's house. Nora's grandmother told her there was a tiger out in her garden in an attempt to cure Nora's boredom. Of course, Nora was not so easily convinced, so she went on an adventure to see for herself. The reader's attention is closely kept while she meets new friends on her journey. We were able to look closely at some vocabulary that was new to my students, and use the pictures to help us create meaning.

My kindergarteners gasped and giggled with excitement as I read this book to them. It is easily now one of my students' favorites. With a little support, they are able to read some of the pages independently, though it would be better suited for a first or second-grade independent read.

[Grace Gayer · Rating 5 out of 5]

A magical story about how powerful our imagination can be! Nora is bored...but then she explores her garden!

[Kayla · Rating 4 out of 5]

Uma história pequena que li ao meu irmão. Como as animais são das suas coisas favoritos, a história não lhe passou ao lado.
A teimosia da pequena Nora foi cómica, mas a crise existencial que apareceu no final do livro talvez tenha sido um passo muito à frente para crianças compreenderem, talvez tenha sido mais dirigido a um adulto que estivesse a acompanhar a leitura com a criança. Ou posso estar a subvalorizar o poder de interpretação das crianças e secalhar até perceberam.
As ilustrações foram a minha parte favorita - muito pormenorizadas e alegres.

[Iqra Fiaz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nora complains about being bored and so is sent on an adventure to find a Tiger in the garden by her Grandmother. She sees many abstract things, including dragonflies as big as birds, polar bears that enjoy fishing and plants that could swallow her whole. She is taught to think about what is real/ fake and use her imagination to make things real.
The hidden clues in the illustrations are a great thing to encourage children to look for and I really enjoyed guessing where the story would go next based on the things I noticed in the background.
A really enjoyable book.

[Bruce Gargoyle · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received a copy of this title from Allen & Unwin for review.

Ten Sentence Synopsis:
In an attempt to cure her granddaughter's boredom, a grandmother casually mentions that there is a tiger in her garden. The resulting, fruitful search is enough to dent the certainty of even the most sceptical of child explorers!

Muster up the motivation because...

This is the kind of book that will have you doing exercises to expand your imagination. While the concept of children "discovering" untapped worlds in the garden isn't new to picture books, the ambiguous ending of this story provides a fun twist. As Nora and Jeff (her toy giraffe) take a turn about the garden, the illustrations become more and more detailed and jungle-like, blending a sense of magical realism with the richly coloured sense of adventure inherent in nature in all its glory. The deep greens that permeate most of the illustrations are so lush and inviting that I just couldn't help plunging on in to this story. Within Nora's imagination, her grandma's small garden morphs into the home of butterflies the size of birds, a grumpy polar bear fishing in the pond and some extremely robust (and hungry) plants. Young readers will love trying to spot the tiger in the earlier pages of the book and there is plenty of visual humour for older ones to notice and enjoy also. If you have a young explorer in your midst, they will revel in this tale that celebrates things that are more than they seem on the surface.

[Alice Biggerstaff · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautifully illustrated book which is great for promoting children’s imagination. Nora’s initial stubbornness in believing that there is a tiger in the garden is turned around when she comes face to face with one in her grandmother’s garden! The book ends with Nora finding a mermaid in the bath which allows children to interpret the ending of the book from their own perspective - is there a mermaid in the bath, or is this Nora’s imagination? A great book for children in predicting what happens next with lots of English learning opportunities and interpretations.

[Mehsi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Een geweldig leuk boek over verbeeldingskracht. Ik moest zo lachen om de knorrige ijsbeer die het meisje vond. :P Dat had ik zeker niet verwacht. De tijger was echt een leuk karakter. Het einde was echt superleuk om te zien. Yay! Ik weet zeker dat het meisje zich nooit zal vervelen. Goed gedaan oma!
Hele mooie illustraties!

[Euan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nora, when visiting her grandma, suffers a severe case of boredom. Encouraged by grandma to explore outside on the pretext that she believes there to be a tiger living in the garden. Doubtful of this, young Nora and her toy giraffe, Jeff, nevertheless embark on an adventure which sees them encounter carnivorous plants, dragonflies, a grumpy polar bear, and the fabled tiger. 'Extraordinarily friendly' and polite, the tiger and Nora become firm friends once the latter has convinced herself that he is indeed real.

Imagination is at the heart of this book and, in my experience, year two children ably entertain two understandings of its content, one in which they interpret the tiger as real, and another in which he is a product of Nora's (and grandma's) imagination; visual clues as to the origin of the more exotic characters abound in the illustrations and suggest the tiger is in fact grandma's ginger cat and the polar bear a soft toy, while, inevitably, the carnivorous plants are innocuous bushes. The book encourages children to use their powers of observation and imagination, and they readily engage with the story and its message.

In year two literacy classes the book might be used as a starting point for story writing: the children could, for example, write about the tiger's life and how he came to be in the garden; poems about the characters could also be written using a simple frame involving nouns, verbs, and adverbs; and different scenes within the book also lend themselves readily to drama lessons, and children enjoy acting out these scenes and developing their own stories. The book's full page colourful illustrations and charmingly drawn characters complement the text and give it a ready appeal – the orange of the tiger against the vibrant greens of the garden being particularly striking. They provide ready inspiration for art lessons, making and/or painting dragonflies, plants, and even perhaps a study of tigers in art. Opportunities for interdisciplinary work are also present: the garden in the book could be linked to a study of plants in science, which might involve the children venturing outside to draw and learn about plants and trees, work which could, with some imagination, inspire further projects in, for example, art and/or literacy.

[Katerina Spoonhour · Rating 5 out of 5]

There's a Tiger in the Garden is about Nora who doesn't believe when on a boring day that Grandma mentions a tiger, huge dragonfly, and plants that try to eat your stuffed giraffe. In order to prove Grandma is wrong, Nora sets out into the garden and finds huge dragonflies and almost losses Jeffery the giraffe to plants. Slowly she is proven wrong but doubts the tiger is real until he talks to her as a guide to return back home where Grandma playful denies the tiger and acts shocked at the mermaid in the bath tub.
The book was really sweet as Nora was out to find facts and ended up finding imagination and an adventure when she wasn't expecting it. The book has nice illustrations which has smooth lines that seem kind of relaxing as you further go throughout the garden. Personally, I think the book has a connection with kid who often get bored when visiting older people and shows the fun side of grandparents.
As a teacher, I would probably use this as a private library or maybe in group reading sections were you can help students visualize and also get comfortable with more words. You could also show this as a take home book for students who like to read to their parents as a way to share creating imaginary stories with an introduction to drawing or creating your own animal friend.

[Mariana Flores · Rating 4 out of 5]

Há um Tigre no Jardim, escrito e ilustrado por Lizzy Stewart, é um daqueles livros fantásticos que lembra às crianças o poder da imaginação. 

Lizzy Stewart é uma ilustradora freelancer de Londres que adora contar histórias povoadas por animais e flores. There's a Tiger in the Garden foi publicado pela primeira vez em 2016, tendo sido traduzido e publicado em português pela primeira vez em 2017 pela Fábula, chancela infantil/juvenil da 20|20 Editora.

"Quando a Avó diz que viu um tigre no jardim, a Nora não acredita. Já é muito crescida para jogar os jogos tontos da Avó! Toda a gente sabe que os tigres vivem em selvas, não em jardins.

Então mesmo quando Nora vê borboletas com asas tão grandes como o seu braço, plantas que tentam comer a sua girafa de brincar, e um urso polar que gosta de pescar, ela sabe que com certeza, definitivamente, de maneira nenhuma pode haver um tigre no jardim... 

Ou será que pode?"


Com cores e texturas maravilhosas, Lizzy Steward lembra-nos do quão bom é dar asas à imaginação. Sonhar e brincar ao faz de conta. Numa era em que as crianças são expostas à realidade tão cedo, acho que precisamos de muitos mais livros assim.

[Christine Turner]

There's nothing to do at Grandma's house and Nora refuses to believe any outlandish tales of dragonflies as big as birds, grumpy polar bears who like to fish, or a magnificent tiger all allegedly residing in Grandma's garden. Nora's too old for silly games. But this charming picture book proves you are never too young or too old to dream--and adventure can find you when you least expect it.

When Grandma says she's seen a tiger in the garden, Nora doesn't believe her. She's too old to play Grandma's silly games! Everyone knows that tigers live in jungles, not gardens. So even when Nora sees dragonflies as big as birds, and plants that try to eat her toy giraffe, and a polar bear that likes fishing, she knows there's absolutely, DEFINITELY no way there could be a tiger in the garden . . .
Could there?

Subject: Gardens -- Juvenile fiction.
Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction.
Imagination -- Juvenile fiction.
Tiger -- Juvenile fiction.
Grandparent and child -- Juvenile fiction.

[Dave Schaafsma · Rating 4 out of 5]

I just read a couple Lizzy Stewart graphic works, and saw this picture book by her, so picked it up. It features a little girl, visiting Grandma, who claims she is bored though the rooms are filled with art and games and toys. Grandma tells her to go outside, there’s a tiger in the garden, the girl denies this is possible, but in it she finds all sorts of things Grandma claimed, including a Polar bear.
Oh, and, spoiler alert, an actual tiger!

“Tigers don’t live in gardens. . . are you real?”
“I don't know, are you?”

“I have an idea. If you believe in me, I’ll be real.” (Tiger)
“And if you believe in me, I’ll be real, too.” (girl)
(that Velvteen Rabbit moment)

The girl is pleased with her non-boring set of adventures in the garden: “He really is extraordinarily friendly, for a tiger,” she says, as they hug goodbye.

Cute, colorful, with a sly performance by Grandma. Yeah, go outside and play and use your imaginations, kids!

[Cindy Mitchell *Kiss the Book* · Rating 3 out of 5]

Stewart, Lizzy There’s a Tiger in the Garden. PICTURE BOOK Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. $18. 9781328791832

When Nora gets bored at her grandmother’s house, she is told to go play in the garden with the tiger. Nora doesn’t believe there is a tiger out there, but as she goes through the garden her imagination starts to see the impossible. When it’s time to go back inside, the tiger says it will be out there any time she wants to come out to play. Nora goes back into her grandmother and confirms that there is a tiger in the garden.

This is a cute book about using your imagination. Nora’s adventure through the garden is colorful, but the illustrations aren’t overly appealing. The message is clear that using your imagination can be fun.

EL (K-3) – OPTIONAL. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
https://kissthebook.blogspot.com/2018...

[Κόκκινη Αλεπού · Rating 5 out of 5]

Η Lizzy Stewart, στο πρώτο της και βραβευμένο με τo Waterstones Children’s Book Prize για το 2017 στην κατηγορία των εικονογραφημένων, μας παρασύρει σε έναν φανταστικό κόσμο γεμάτο περίεργα, φανταχτερά πλάσματα, σε ένα ταξίδι αναζήτησης στον πίσω κήπο ενός σπιτιού. Τι είναι αληθινό και τι φανταστικό; Πού μπορεί να σε οδηγήσει η βαρεμάρα και πόσο ωφέλιμη είναι για την παιδική (και όχι μόνο) φαντασία;

Το βιβλίο της ξεχωρίζει πριν ακόμα το ανοίξεις από το ανάγλυφο του εξώφυλλου, την ποιότητα του χαρτιού, τη ζωντανή εικονογράφηση με τα έντονα χρώματα, ακόμα και τη γραμματοσειρά. Οταν το ανοίγεις, σε υποδέχεται ένα έντονα πορτοκαλί εσώφυλλο γεμάτο περιγράμματα φυτών και πουλιών, για να σε καλοσωρίσει στο αμέσως επόμενο σαλόνι η Νόρα και ο Τζεφ. Και η περιπέτεια ξεκινά…

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[OxoNewbie · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Are you real?"
"I don't know," says the tiger. "Are you?"
Nora thinks about this for a long time.
"I don't know," she admits. "How can you tell?"
"I'm not sure you can," says the tiger.
This makes Nora feel a bit funny.

A story about a boring afternoon at Grandma's house. Nora is persuaded to go into the garden by her gran's stories about dragonflies the size of birds, plants that can swallow a person up whole, a grumpy polar bear who likes fishing and a magnificent tiger. It's not clear whether these things are real or figments of Nora's imagination. Beautiful illustrations. My only gripe is the similarity to "The Tiger Who Came to Tea" by Judith Kerr. Perhaps the author was inspired by this book but it would have been better to have chosen a different animal.

3 stars.

[Beth · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this gentle story of a bored little girl at her Grandma's house. Nora and her toy giraffe, Jeff, are bored, so Grandma sends them out into the garden in search huge dragonflies, plants that will try to eat you, a grumpy polar bear, and a friendly Tiger. Nora doesn't believe such things exist in the garden, but lo and behold she encounters them all. It's not clear if she is dreaming, imagining, or truly experiencing all these things, but that doesn't matter. The illustrations are colorful and engaging, and the story will get young listeners/readers using their imaginations.

[Francesca Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nora goes outside to play in her Grandma’s garden. Her Grandma tells her there is aa tiger that lives in the garden but Nora doesn’t believe her. Nora discovers, dragonflies, venus fly traps and even a polar bear. the polar bear says there is a tiger in the garden too Nora discovers the tiger and makes a deal with him that if she believes in him, he has to believe in her too, so they do. When Nora returns to her Grandma’s she tells her about the tiger and says there’s a mermaid in the bath too. This book really ties in with the theme of children’s imagination.

[Milan Žila · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great illustrations and a simple, yet thought provoking story. Me and my daughter both enjoyed this book.

Also a very good book for rereading. There are many details you can point out - almost every picture has a bird in it or other little animals. While rereading there is also time to stop and ask questions about what is real and what is imagined. Personally, I waited for our third reread to mention Cogito ergo sum :)

[Juliana Lee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nora is bored and Grandma sends her into the garden to find the tiger. Nora doesn't believe there's really a tiger in the garden, but she goes in and finds many of the other things Grandma told her are true. Then she meets a tiger who doesn't know if he's real or if she's real either. At the end of the day, Nora tells Grandma about meeting the tiger and even Grandma says it might have been the cat.

[Izzy · Rating 5 out of 5]

A lovely story about encouraging children's imagination. Following the little girl Nora and her toy giraffe, they go on an adventure in the garden after her grandma tells her she has seen a tiger! Although sceptical at first, Nora soon discovers some unusual things in her garden.
Particularly in times of isolation, in school and at home, resources may be limited so it is important that we can re-engage with children's imaginations and use our surrounding environments as a stimulus.

[Mindy Baker · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best cure for boredom is your imagination! This book vividly demonstrates this theme! The beautiful illustrations drew me to this book on the shelf. Bored at Grandma's, Nora hesitantly follow Grandma's suggestion to play in the garden and look for the tiger Grandma claimed she saw earlier.
Spoiler alert: She finds the tiger! I loved the last wink to the reader when Nora tells her grandma that there is a mermaid in the bathtub!

[Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is adorable. A little girl is at her grandmas with her stuffed giraffe. They are a bit board and go outside to find a tiger. But there are no tigers in a garden. Sure, there are dragonflies as big as your head, plants that want to eat you, and a grumpy polar bear, but there are no tigers in the garden. Until there are. This was fun and the illustrations are wonderful. Kids will want this read over and over again.

[Dimity Powell · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's the punch you in the eyes (in a good way) vibrancy of Stewart's illustrations that really appeal in this charming little tale of imagination. Told with a little tongue in cheek thanks to clever grandma, Tiger in the Garden is faintly reminiscent of having tigers over for tea and a wonderful testament to the simple wonders of childhood.