This is an excellent book. Cretins have deprived children of the works of Helen Bannerman for too long. Her classic story of "Little Black Sambo" is improved upon here, this time our heroine is Little Quasha, a kind, intelligent girl who loves to read and whose unselfish assistance to an unfortunate person is rewarded. Hungry tigers disrupt our scholar while she reads her books, but with the help of a friend she devises a way to escape.