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If you have ever enjoyed The Gruffalo, you might be amused by this fan homage to that wonderful work. If you haven't, do that first. The Gruffalo is for children zero to five years old. Buffalo Tiger is for six year olds and up. Both works are quite short and ultimately based on a Chinese folk tale about a fox and a tiger. Buffalo Tiger offers a solution to a special challenge of rhyming with "tiger" and adds a few nuances along the way. It invokes the world of insects, whereas The Gruffalo narrates from the world of larger animals.

The events take place in one of the largest and oldest San Francisco's department stores. A casual visit to see mannequins drifts into a fantasy territory with a slightly disturbing turn of events; nothing extreme, though, and with a happy ending. The book is written as a rhymed narration where most of the lines are rhymed. It is not a poetry in the traditional sense of the word.