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A tiger spirit must eat a few children to become a human, so it descends from the mountains to find children to eat. [3] After going down the mountain, it hides outside a house and eavesdropped, knowing that the mother is going out and there is only a pair of siblings in the house, so it turns into an aunt to trick the child into opening the door and entering the house.
At the 2001 British Academy Children's Awards, the episode "Aunt Tiger" won the Animation category while the episodes "Chief and the Carpenter" and "The Tyrant and the Child" received nominations for the International category. [46] The following year, the episode "Bad Baby Amy" was nominated for the Animation award. [47]
Sword-Dancer is the story of Sandtiger, a famous Southron sword-dancer, who is hired by a Northern woman to guide her through the fierce desert to rescue her brother, a slave in the South. This woman, Delilah, or Del is a sword-singer who is as good as Tiger, and this grates on Tiger's Southron ideas. Vol. 2: Sword-Singer (1988)
The Dale–Chall readability formula is a readability test that provides a numeric gauge of the comprehension difficulty that readers come upon when reading a text. It uses a list of 3000 words that groups of fourth-grade American students could reliably understand, considering any word not on that list to be difficult.
Jennifer Donnelly: A Northern Light, Revolution; Siobhan Dowd: A Swift Pure Cry, Bog Child; Ann Downer: The Spellkey, The Glass Salamander, The Books of the Keepers; Jenny Downham: Before I Die; Sharon Draper: Tears of a Tiger, The Battle of Jericho, Copper Sun, Romiette and Julio; Diane Duane: Young Wizards series; Tessa Duder: Alex Quartet
a book that refuses to talk down to its readers, believing them able to grasp the difficult concepts of mathematics, love and the battle between good and evil. And that's quite something. [31] A 2004 study found that A Wrinkle in Time was a common read-aloud book for sixth-graders in schools in San Diego County, California. [32]
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Mrs. Eleanor Little (portrayed and voiced by Geena Davis in the films, and by Jennifer Hale in the animated series) is the matriarch of the Little family, and Mr. Little's wife. In the 1945 novel, she was referred to as Mrs. Frederick C. Little. Her name was revealed in the 1999 film, as it was never mentioned in the 1945 novel.