Judith Kerr and the story behind The Tiger Who Came To Tea
25 November 2013 Last updated at 19:11 ET
By Lucy Wallis BBC News
... The work, published in 1968, has been read by several generations and tells the story of a tiger who invites himself to tea and eats and drinks all the food and water in Sophie's house. He then leaves, never to return ...
Kerr grew up in a loving family in pre-World War Two Berlin. Her mother Julia was a composer and her father, Alfred Kerr, a Jewish intellectual and theatre critic. They realised the impending threat from Hitler and Nazi Germany, and publicly criticised the regime ...
"My mother said, 'When we get to the frontier and the man comes to look at our passports, I want both of you to be absolutely silent. You're not to say a word'.
"So when we got to the frontier, a man came and looked at all the passports. As he went out, I was going to say, 'There you are, nothing's happened' and my mother just gave me a terrible look and so I stopped. I think now what I might have done to my family," says Kerr ...
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