{"product_id":"grandmas-tiger","title":"Grandma's Tiger","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Author and Illustrator\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner, Best Picture Book, Singapore Book Awards 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGrandma’s Tiger\u003c\/em\u003e has been selected for \u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ijb.de\/en\/home\/the-white-ravens\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe White Ravens 2023 recommendation list\u003c\/a\u003e by The International Youth Library.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe White Ravens recommendation list features brief annotations of 200 notable new children’s and young adult books in 39 languages from 57 countries.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Help! TIGER!!”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWas it really a tiger that Grandma saw on Pulau Ubin while gathering clams one warm, sunny morning?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd what will animal expert Dr Sunny Banuna and his team find when they embark on their big tiger hunt across the island?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the award-winning duo of Alan John and Quek Hong Shin comes another charming and lively children’s story, \u003cem\u003eGrandma’s Tiger\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tale was inspired by a slice of Singapore history – a few frenzied days in 1997 when a tiger was “spotted” on Ubin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChildren will turn the pages eagerly as they, too, go on a tiger search and try to spot the tiger along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is also filled with many beautifully-rendered illustrations of other creatures found in the region, such as the tiger beetle, the giant Asian mantis and the knobbly sea star.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGrandma’s Tiger\u003c\/em\u003e is Alan John and Quek Hong Shin’s third book together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir first collaboration, \u003cem\u003eThe One and Only Inuka\u003c\/em\u003e, paid tribute to Inuka, the Singapore Zoo’s much-loved polar bear. The title won the Popular Reader’s Choice Awards 2019 in the children’s English books category.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir second book together, \u003cem\u003eUbin Elephant\u003c\/em\u003e, was inspired by another real-life incident – the appearance of an elephant on Ubin in March 1991. \u003cem\u003eUbin Elephant\u003c\/em\u003e was one of the three finalists for Best Picture Book for the Singapore Book Awards 2022. It has also been shortlisted for the Popular Reader’s Choice Awards 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlan John\u003c\/strong\u003e is a journalist, a writer and a trainer, and a former deputy editor of The Straits Times. He is the director of the Asia Journalism Fellowship and a consulting editor of the South China Morning Post. He remembers the excitement in Singapore the year people living on Pulau Ubin said they saw a tiger. He does not know why nobody believes him when he tells this story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eQuek Hong Shin\u003c\/strong\u003e is a children’s book author and illustrator. His picture books were twice nominated for The Hedwig Anuar Chil- dren’s Book Award and The Incredible Basket won the Best Children’s Picture Book award at the 2019 Singapore Book Awards. He visited Pulau Ubin with Alan and they did not see a tiger, but they did meet a man who insisted that it had walked past his house.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Straits Times Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47097661554985,"sku":"9789815081060","price":14.95,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/files\/TigerFrontCover.jpg?v=1698457609","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/grandmas-tiger","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}