Review: Beautiful Art 5, Mislabeled Story 3, Gorgeous "Poster" at the End
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 5, 2012
The illustrations in this book are complex, eye catching, filled with detail, and beautiful.The story is about Mallika a young tigress who has a problem settling down and handling her frustration.  One day Babur, Mallika's mother, is teaching Mallika and her brother, Ben,  to hunt.  The brother causes Mallika to lose a peacock.  As Mallika tries to calm down she takes a walk and ends up falling into some ruins.  How she manages to escape and control her frustration is the heartwarming finish.Here is my issue, I can see this book on handling frustration, but I don't see unrighteous anger.  Mallika doesn't get angry over silly little things, that normal kids would become angry for.  She doesn't have temper tantrums.  She immediately listens to and obeys her mother. The couple of times she does get angry are due to her brother losing her catch, and the monkeys teasing her about it.What I see is a story of perseverance but not anger management.  So while I see, with a little story editing, a fantastic story on control.  I do not see the "anger management", as discussed not only in the title, but several times in the book.  In fact, the numerous mentions of Mallika being mad forced me out of the story.  It would have been better to "show" her anger through her deeds.So with that, I highly recommend this book.  I particularly like the end of the book where they have a "poster" discussing many of the places, animals, etc... mentioned in the book.