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Amelia Cobb's The Talkative Tiger is a Rescue Zoo story for 5 year olds about a tiger cub who simply can't stop chatting.
It's the first day of the summer holidays and Zoe is helping to feed the sea otters. Then Great-Uncle Horace drives in with a trailer, and out bounds a stripy blur. It's a tiger cub from Bengal called Teddy. His forest has been turned into farmland and his mum has died, so he needed somewhere new to live.
Zoe has a secret. She can understand what animals say. And Teddy has a LOT to say!
He calls the moon Mr Silver Face and a man in a brown and green outfit Mr Tree Trunk Legs. He chatters all night long. Soon Bertie the elephant, the monkeys and the otters are all too sleepy to play.
Zoe has a worry of her own too. Great-Uncle Horace wants her to give a talk about mouse lemurs at Endangered Habitat Day. In front of lots and lots of people.
Her tummy flips just thinking about it. So she asks the animals what they do to feel brave. Cleo the zebra has a good shake, Hugo the hedgehog curls into a ball and Teddy stands tall and roars. Which would you try?
This is a sweet one for any child who gets butterflies. Zoe practises in front of the keepers and still gets her words in a muddle (her notebook ends up on the floor). It's reassuring to watch her keep going.
The animal facts slip in naturally too. Did you know no two tigers have exactly the same stripes? And Meep is as cheeky as ever, especially when there's food about.
If they fall for the sea otters next door to Teddy, their arrival is in The Scruffy Sea Otter, when Great-Uncle Horace sails three orphaned pups home up the river.
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