Lord Tiger is one of the titles in the Snowflake Books series: Animal Signs. Quoted from ancient Chinese legends, all built around the legendary animal race, these stories are known and loved by all Chinese children. Thus, the books provide an informal and accessible way to introduce western children to an important aspect of Chinese life and culture at home, and introduce diversity studies into education.

Each book tells the story of one of the animals of Chinese zodiac signs, which are also used as names of years in the Chinese calendar. Lord Tiger is a very bad tiger - he eats people! The villagers appeal to the land of God, who order the tiger to act.

One day the tiger hopes to own the animals, so try to be good. But when he is very tired and hungry after the race, he eats an old lady by mistake.

Doctor Wu shows the tiger it. Now there is no one to take care of the old lady's mother.

The tiger is full of remorse and promises to take care of the mother herself. Have a friendship with a little girl, and when the girl is very sick, the tiger discovers that he has healing powers.

Doctor Wu and Tiger agree to work together to treat patients. Lord Tiger is known as the "guardian of the children." Like all Chinese traditional animal stories, their misleading simplicity is a means of displaying the richness and diversity of human personality and feeling.

. The Chinese believe that the year of the animal for the birth of the person affects the personality; the animals in these myths exhibit to some extent their own zodiacal qualities, in this extreme case of evil and the possibility of goodness in one personality.

It is the story of remorse and redemption. Chinese mother still leaves gifts in the statues of Lord Tiger in the temples, hoping to get good health for their children.

This is a completely new version of the old legend, rewritten in simple English, suitable for reading, for young children, or by older children who learn Mandarin. Full bilingual text with encoded key words and Mandarin English vocabulary.

The parallel text in Pinyin, using the Roman alphabet, allows readers to pronounce Chinese characters. Buying a book allows access to a mobile e-book with audio in English and / or Chinese.

High production quality, with good quality of paper and color, full original colorful illustrations by Chinese artists in each page and traditional binding.