The Little Roaring Tiger

by Reiner Zimnik

Todos los animales le querían mucho porque siempre estaba contento. Pero el día que se sintió fuerte y valiente, se marchó a conocer mundo.

61 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1961

Reviews

[Adam · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun story, though not one of the author's best. You get to see a bit more of Zimnik the artist here than Zimnik the storyteller. Still, it's well worth a read.

[Pablo María Fernández · Rating 4 out of 5]

I re-read Jonah, the fisherman and found Reiner Zimnik and that book fascinating. His poetic texts, his inspired drawings, the lovely plot. Unfortunately, although he was rather famous in his age (translated to more than fourteen languages) nowadays he is practically unknown and it is really hard to find his books. Apparently The crane is his most famous work in English and The drums in Spanish. I discovered that Internet Archive has a couple of his books, so I read this one from there (https://archive.org/details/bwb_P2-DL...)

It was published in 1961, seven years after Jonah and many things breathe the same style but are unique in their own way. Again, we have a main character that only values its current life after losing it. We start in the forest with the lion and discover wonderful villains with a witty plan.

I am looking forward to read more books by Zimnik. I confirmed that Jonah is not a one-hit wonder but that there are more beautiful works in this authors’ particular writing and drawing.