![]() One of you wondered why the tree leaves in the jungle were so perfectly shaped, which is a fair question. This sometimes leaves kids scratching their heads, but I feel pretty confident in my decisions. Throughout children's books and animation, storytellers have constantly faced this same funny situation, and most of the time we have to make some sort of distinction between the "people-like animals" and the "real animals." In this case, I decided only mammals would speak, essentially the story takes place in "mammal world," and so none of the birds or fish (or butterflies) can communicate with the mammals. ![]() "Why don't the birds or fish speak?" is a question I sometimes get from kids. Tiger Goes Wild resonated with you.Ī million little decisions go into telling a visual story and things can get surprisingly complicated when exploring anthropomorphism, like I did in this book. Sorry this is late, I've had a busy week, but just wanted to chime in quickly and say how thrilled I am that Mr. ![]()
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