SOLVED. Maybe Reading Rainbow book from early 90s. Picture book. Main character is trying to shoot animals. Looks like hunting, but is actually photography. [s]

[Annalisa]

Really pretty illustrations. Animals might have been wolves or tigers.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

I'm confused, are there photographs, or illustrations? In what country is this happening? I'm asking because hunting/killing large animals seems like a slightly strange/violent subject for a children's book in our modern era. Is the story fiction or nonfiction?

[Rainbowheart]

I think I know this book, but I can't think of the name.

It's a picture book where it seems like the guy is a hunter who is going to shoot the animals with a gun, but it turns out he's just a photographer taking pictures of the animals.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

I see.

[Ayshe]

Maybe In a Cabin in a Wood?
From the Kirkus review:
". . .little man by the window stood./Saw a rabbit hopping by,/. . .'Help me, help me, help!' it said./'Before the hunter shoots me dead.'" The illustration reveals that the hunter is only a woman with a camera, but the kindly old man (an artist) takes in not only the rabbit but a lively possum family and several other animals--who overrun his cabin, try out his paints and plumbing (moose in the bathtub), and are finally so obstreperous that artist and rabbit devise a clever ruse: a bit of black paint disguises rabbit as skunk, and, presto! the other animals are back outside to be photographed.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-re...

[Annalisa]

No. A similar plot, but if I remember properly it has beautiful watercolor illustrations.

[Ayshe]

How about Tiger by Judy Allen?

[Annalisa]

Ayshe wrote: "How about Tiger by Judy Allen?"
That's it!

Thanks!