Tigers
Browse our collection of Tigers kids books, fairy tales, poems, bedtime stories, short stories and novels. Use the filters to narrow your choices, or read our full article for inspiration.
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This page offers a collection of tales about tigers across various themes, showcasing their interactions with other animals, humans, and nature. Through diverse cultural narratives, the stories explore the tiger’s strength, intelligence, and sometimes, vulnerability.
In stories of bravery and unlikely alliances, The Passage Of The Yabebirí recounts how stingrays defend a man from a tiger attack, while Kanan, the Boy in the Jungle depicts a young boy who befriends a tiger he rescues. Moti humorously portrays a young man who accidentally exchanges his horse for a tiger, eventually leading an army to victory in a surprising twist of fate.
Explorations of morality and wisdom appear in The Lady, or the Tiger?, where a prince must choose between two doors, one hiding a tiger and the other his future bride, and The Tiger and the Fox, where a fox uses cleverness to outwit a dangerous tiger, ultimately leading to the tiger’s demise. In How the Monkey and the Goat Earned Their Reputations, the monkey and goat encounter a manipulative tiger who seeks to exploit them for his own benefit.
The tales delve into folklore as well, such as How the Tiger Got His Stripes, a myth explaining how the tiger’s stripes originated, and Why the Tiger and the Stag Fear Each Other, which reveals the ancient rivalry between these two animals.