Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Many years ago, the proudest animal in the jungle was not the peacock. The proudest animal was the tiger. In this timeless folktale from Vietnam, we see how Tiger's pride leads him to covet wisdom and, with the help of a wise farmer, earn his stripes.

A tiger searches for his stripes when he wakes up one morning to discover that they have disappeared.

Relates how the leopard got his spotted coat in order to hunt the animals in the dappled shadows of the forest.

Working from firsthand interviews and investigations, journalist Meacham offers a balanced, probing, fascinating analysis of how tiger extinction is happening and what is being done to try and stop it. For those readers eager to understand the ecological and political forces at play behind the tiger's endangerment and for those who simply love tigers, this book offers an informed, compassionate view that can make a difference.

At last...a must-read, never-before-told story of how the noble tiger got his stripes.

Hoping to acquire wisdom from man, Tiger ends up instead with stripes on his golden coat.