Tiger Pups by Tom and Allie Harvey - Children's Animal Story Book (2009) | Perfect for Bedtime Reading & Early Learning

This wonderful story, told in uttermost simplicity, and accompanied by awesome photographs, cannot be recommended too highly. I believe it should be in every children's school library as it is so faith affirming in the power of love and the importance of staying connected to our natural friends. It is healing to both animal and human.A mother tiger rejects her three newborns shortly after birth. A golden retriever that recently gave birth to her own pups adopts the tigers, and we get to see their development within their relationship to the dog and her own growing puppies up to the point where the tiger pups are ready to live outdoors.The photographs by Tom Harvey and Keith Philpott are fantastic and not to be missed. Sarah L. Thomson, author and poet, assisted the Harveys in the writing of the book and in sculpturing the story to a very tasteful simplicity. The photographs really do most of the talking. We see the tigers before their eyes have opened, graduating to their milk bottles and playing with toilet paper and stuffed toys. One wonderful photo is of the tiger pup coming out of the bathtub, dripping and soaked with water and a puzzled look on her face (the pups are all girls).The Harveys own and operate Safari Zoological park in Caney, Kansas, and we hope above hope that the tiger pups are still doing well there.