''Tiger Tale'' is a children's

picture book A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. With the narrative told primarily through text, they are distinct from comics, which do so primarily through sequential images. The images ...

illustrated by Marion Isham and written by Steve Isham. First published in 2002, the book retells the Aboriginal story of how the

Tasmanian tiger The thylacine ( , or , also ) (''Thylacinus cynocephalus'') is an extinct carnivorous marsupial that was native to the Australian mainland and the islands of Tasmania and New Guinea. The last known live animal was captured in 1930 in Tasma ...

got its stripes. ''Tiger Tale'' is illustrated using torn paper collage that gives the book a folkloric style.

Plot

The story starts with the Tiger, all golden, without his stripes, singing. The Tiger walks through the forest down to the river, singing all the way. He passes the platypus and meets the Bunyip who tells him to go away and stop singing. Leaving the river he meets Kanga, who also tells him to stop singing. Finally Great Bird tells him to stop singing. As Tiger goes on his way he notices a bushfire approaching and goes back to the river to summon the other animals, however all three, Bunyip, Kanga and Great Bird all desert him. Tiger runs back and forth from the river to the fire until the fire is extinguished but the Tiger has lost his voice and the soot leaves stripes on his back.

Sales, background and critical reaction

''Tiger Tale'' is in its second printing and has been sold throughout Australia through

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stores. The title was favorably reviewed in the ''Magpies'' magazine of children's literature in May 2003. In April 2011, it was selected to be included as part of the official gift from the Tasmanian government to Denmark's Prince Fredrick and Princess Mary, on the arrival of their twins.'Tassie unveils royal gifts', '' Mercury Newspaper'', 11 April 2011.

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Plot

Sales, background and critical reaction

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