Akron Public Library

Martel's novel tells the story of Pi--short for Piscine--an unusual boy raised in a zoo in India. Pi's father decides to move the family to live in Canada and sell the animals to the great zoos of America. The ship taking them across the Pacific sinks and Pi finds himself the sole human survivor on a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra with a broken leg and Bengal tiger called Richard Parker. Life of Pi brings together many themes including...

Leo, a young tiger, finally blooms under the anxious eyes of his parents.

Seventeen-year-old Oregon teenager Kelsey forms a bond with a circus tiger who's actually one of two brothers, Indian princes Ren and Kishan, who were cursed to live as tigers for eternity, and she travels with him to India where the tiger's curse may be broken once and for all.

Little Tiger's mother is going to have a baby, but when Little Tiger sees the new babies in the other animals' families he is sure he does not want one of his own.

Leo the tiger worries and wonders why his little brother can't do anything right, but his parents encourage Leo to be patient.

Tiny Tiger is too shy to play with the other cats, but then old Riley Lion gives him some wise advice.

Even though all of his jungle friends take baths, Little Tiger decides he doesn't need one, until one day he sees his reflection in the river.

Presents a newly illustrated edition of the story of a little African boy in India who loses his fine new clothes to the tigers, but is able to get them back when the animals get into a fight over who is the grandest tiger in the jungle.

Calvin--a six-year-old boy with a boundless imagination and a zest for misadventure--confounds his parents, his teacher and his classmates with the help of his lovable stuffed tiger Hobbes

Princess Jasmine and her pet tiger become the best of friends.