A Tiger Cub Grows Up

Follows Tara, a tiger cub, as she grows from a tiny newborn cub to a full-grown tiger.

Follows Tara, a tiger cub, as she grows from a tiny newborn cub to a full-grown tiger.

Explains the life cycle of the tiger.

When you look at a tiger cub, do you see a future gorger or apex predator? If not, you should. The baby animals in this book share about their dreams for adulthood!

Packed with fascinating facts and beautiful images of tigresses and their cubs, animal lovers will enjoy the journey of how tiger cubs grow up. Young readers will learn how these fierce cats become powerful hunters in order to survive in the jungle and why so many tiger cubs do not live past their first years of life. Featuring simple yet informative language that covers the habitat, diet, anatomy, and behaviors of the world's largest big cat, this fun book supports the Next Generation Science Standards on growth and development of organisms, biodiversity, and social interactions in animal groups.

When a tiger cub goes missing from the reserve, Neil is determined to find her before the greedy Gupta gets his hands on her to kill her and sell her body parts on the black market. Neil's parents, however, are counting on him to study hard and win a prestigious scholarship to study in Kolkata. Neil doesn't want to leave his family or his island home and he struggles with his familial duty and his desire to maintain the beauty and wildness of his island home in West Bengal's Sunderbans.

Introduces lion cubs and describes how these little lions learn to hunt and live as a group.

Learn to graph while following the growth of T.J., an orphaned Siberian tiger cub who is hand-raised at the Denver Zoo. T.J. is a Siberian tiger cub born at the Denver Zoo. One day he stops eating. The zoo staff tries to tempt him with treats, but he refuses them all. The staff doesn't give up, and finally their love and persistence pay off. T.J. grows up to be a huge, healthy tiger. The delightful pictures of T.J. and the heartwarming story of his life will charm young readers as they learn the basic math skills of graphing in Tiger Math by Ann Whitehead Nagda and Cindy Bickel. Those who like storybooks can read just the right-hand pages of this book. But those who want to know more can use the graphs on the left-hand pages to see exactly how T.J. grew.