Organisers hope the display will help introduce the classic children's book to a new generation
A new exhibition about the classic children's book The Tiger Who Came to Tea will open in Leicester this month.Organisers hope it will create a new generation of fans for the animated book about an extremely hungry but gentle tiger who unexpectedly visits a little girl called Sophie.
Leicester City has worked with Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children's Books, to curate the display which features copies of Judith Kerr's original illustrations.Children will have the chance to enjoy stepping into Sophie's kitchen to have tea with a life-sized "tiger". Her family fled Germany when the Nazis came to power and were refugees in Switzerland then France before finally settling in London in 1936.
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