Tiger's Birthday Party

by Peter Halder

Overview

A menagerie of seven amusing and entertaining animal tales each of which contains a moral. It's a reading feast for children of all ages. Tiger's Birthday Party comes to an abrupt end when sloth, by name and nature, went to fetch water. Tiger's Zeal proves its undoing. A lion sets out to kill and eat a wild boar and learns a lesson in the Lion and The Wild Boars. A leopard uses Grace Before Meals to save a hapless powis bird. A man learns that city tricks cannot help him To Catch A Monkey. A jaguar feigns death in The Jaguar and The Wolf to catch its arch enemy the wolf but is outwitted. A male monkey seeks the help of a tiger to prove it is brave in The Monkey and The Tiger. The final treat in this enchanting book is a Rhyme of The Impossible.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940046014174
Publisher:	Proglen
Publication date:	06/14/2014
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	183 KB
Age Range:	5 - 11 Years

About the Author

Peter Halder is the pen name of Burnett Alexander Halder. He was born in Guyana, formerly British Guyana, and educated there, the United Kingdom and the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago.

Peter worked as a journalist and later joined the Government Service. He served in District Administration, Licence Revenue and Foreign Affairs. As a diplomat, he was Deputy Head of Mission, Guyana Embassy, Washington D.C., U.S.A. and subsequently appointed High Commissioner to Canada. He resigned and accepted an appointment as a Consultant with the Government of Fiji. He later became a Consultant with the Fiji Embassy to the U.S.A. and after, with the Fiji Permanent Mission to the United Nations.

Peter received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Guyana Cultural Association of New York, USA and Editor’s Awards from The National Library of Poetry, Maryland, USA. His first book, The Cat of Muritaro, was published in 2012. He has a blogsite at www.peterhalder.wordpress.com/ at which his nostalgias, articles, short stories, and poems can be read.

He is now retired and lives with his family in Virginia, U.S.A.