Camp Tiger
  • Published: 21 May 2019
  • ISBN: 9780399173295
  • Imprint: Putnam
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 40
  • RRP: $40.00

Camp Tiger

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Six Starred Reviews!

Shelf Awareness Best Children's Book of 2019

A 2019 New York Public Library Best Book for Kids

Six Starred Reviews!

Shelf Awareness Best Children's Book of 2019

A 2019 New York Public Library Best Book for Kids

Imagination meets reality in this poetic and tender ode to childhood, illustrated by Caldecott Honor winner, John Rocco.

Every year, a boy and his family go camping at Mountain Pond.

Usually, they see things like an eagle fishing for his dinner, a salamander with red spots on its back, and chipmunks that come to steal food while the family sits by the campfire.

But this year is different. This year, the boy is going into first grade, and his mother is encouraging him to do things on his own, just like his older brother. And the most different thing of all . . . this year, a tiger comes to the woods.

With lyrical prose and dazzling art, Pulitzer Prize finalist Susan Choi and Caldecott-honor winning artist John Rocco have created a moving and joyful ode to growing up.
  • Published: 21 May 2019
  • ISBN: 9780399173295
  • Imprint: Putnam
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 40
  • RRP: $40.00
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About the author

Susan Choi

Susan Choi’s first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for Fiction. Her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel, A Person of Interest, was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2010 she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award. Her fourth novel, My Education, received a 2014 Lambda Literary Award. Her fifth novel, Trust Exercise, won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction – and was a US bestseller. Flashlight began as a short story and won the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award in 2021. She lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

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My Education
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Praise for Camp Tiger

Praise for Big Machines: The Story of Virginia Lee Burton:
* "Bursting with color and action." -Kirkus Reviews, starred review
* "Prime material for classroom author studies and a lively, imaginative introduction to Burton's classic picture books." -Booklist, starred review
"Rocco's paintings of the artist at work and his replicas of her illustrations are masterful." -Horn Book

Praise for How to Track a Truck:
"Rocco's large cartoon illustrations are very appealing and give tons of personality to the "pets." The vibrant colors are bold on the pages, inviting readers in." -School Library Journal

Praise for Beep! Beep! Go to Sleep:
* "Wonderfully entertaining." -Publishers Weekly, starred review
"A tricksy and playful rhyming robot bedtime story that will power down the little ones." -Kirkus Reviews
"A delightful tale of bedtime role-reversal that sharp youngsters will appreciate." -School Library Journal