Joe's Reviews > The Tiger Who Came to Tea

There is a lovely something about the cadences of Judith Kerr’s writing in this book. She tells the story just exactly the way a child wants a story to be told—she focuses on just exactly the details a child cares about most (the mystery of who’s at the door; the matter of what was eaten; the thrill of going out after dark when cars have their headlights on). I’ve read this book at least twelve thrillion times to my twins and yet the magic of the thing never fades… indeed, it only seems to increase with repetition.