2 Picture Books by Carol Fenner

About the Book

Tiger, Tiger

“A quiet, well-conceived picture book.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Warm and deliciously suspenseful and scary.”
—Booklist

“A poetic, completely harmonious and beautiful picture book.”
—Hornbook

Gorilla Gorilla

1973 Christopher Medal for non-fiction; Library of Congress Book of the Year; ALA Notable Book; Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children.

“Fenner has turned a reading of Schaller’s Year of the Gorilla and her own zoo observations into a sound and vividly empathic account, and Shimin’s soft, gray drawings reinforce the mood of her prose.”
—Kirkus

“Based on impressive research, this is the story of a young gorilla who grows from a babe in his mother’s arms to become the strongest male of his tribe. The illustrations are spellbinding and so is the story.”
—Publisher’s Weekly

About the Author

Newbery Honor author, Carol Fenner's Tigers in the Cellar was inspired by the root cellar under the century old house of her childhood in Almond, upstate New York. Gorilla Gorilla was inspired by a feisty gorilla in the Ueno Park Zoo in Tokyo. Carol Fenner now lives in Michigan with her husband, Major Jiles Williams, where her current novels (Randall's Wall, Yolonda's Genius and The King of Dragons) take place.

Born in Astrakhan, Russia, in 1902, Symeon Shimin came to America in 1912. An acclaimed painter, his work has been exhibited in various museums, including the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City and the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. His illustrations have graced more than forty children's books. Mr. Shimin died in 1984.