The Cat Who Thought He Was a Tiger

A striped cat believes he is a tiger. While his four brothers and sisters live, play, and eat together with a boy and girl in a house, he does things that he thinks tigers do like living alone in the backyard, eating grass, and sleeping in a tree. Later, he goes to a circus, meets a tiger and asks to play with it as "You're a tiger and I'm a tiger". The tiger sets him straight by saying "You? a TIGER? No You're not, .. You're a little cat." On hearing this, the cat is very happy and runs back to the house where he tells everyone that he is a cat and now the cat plays, eats, and sleeps with his brothers and sisters.

Idaho State Journal called it a "delightful fantasy"[1] and in a star review, Kirkus Reviews wrote "Tiger colored pictures, posed with dead pan drama, add a note of gentle ferocity."[2] The Saturday Review called it "a delightful story" and wrote "The stylized illustrations add charm and interest to the tale."[3] Duncan Weller counts it amongst his favorite picture books.[4]