The Time Traveller And The Tiger

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Kathleen's review - India in the 1940s and big game hunting was all the rage - there may have been some people who didn't like the idea of it, but nobody questioned - and the boy John is hunting a tiger which he has been told is a mankiller. He believes by killing the tiger he'll prove to his parents that he's worth something.

Great-uncle John in present-day England has a tiger skin rug on the floor and a great sadness in his spirit. When Elsie goes to stay with him she is whisked back to the place of his youth, and she knows she has to stop him. But is it possible? Can you change time? And what about the danger they're in from the sinister big game hunter and his entourage?

Great adventure and a lovely story about listening and learning and making moral choices.

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Mingling the classic charm of Tom's Midnight Garden with the adventures of a lifetime; two boys and a girl are lost in the forests of India where mighty tigers prowl.

Elsie is not looking forward to the long summer holiday with her creaky, old Uncle John. But then the unimaginable happens as Time unravels and Elsie tumbles back to 1940s India to meet her Uncle John as a young boy on a tiger hunt. Can Elsie stop him from doing what he's already told her is a wrong he can never right?

The Time Traveller and the Tiger is a multi-layered middle grade novel rich in adventure, mystery, historical and conservation themes.