Post for the tiger

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Post für den Tiger (The story of how the little bear and the little tiger invented letter mail, airmail and the telephone) is the book title of an illustrated children's story by Janosch . The book was first published in 1980.

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In Post for the Tiger Janosch tells how the little tiger and the little bear invent the post and the telephone.

When the little bear goes fishing, the little tiger, who stayed at home, notices that he is very alone and feels very lonely. That's why he doesn't feel like peeling potatoes, sweeping them or watering the flowers. To change this, the little bear should write him a letter from the river. Since the bear writes the letter, but only brings it home in the evening, the tiger has to experience another lonely day. So the tiger and the bear decide to send the letter through a messenger next time.
This is not very easy at first because nobody has time to play the postman. The mouse is too small, the fish may not hear well, the fox and goose are too busy for a funeral and the elephant is sleeping. Finally a rabbit comes by who is happy to take on this task. He brings the letter to the tiger, who now feels like boiling and sweeping potatoes again, because suddenly he no longer feels lonely.
The next day the tiger and the bear do it the other way round: the tiger collects mushrooms in the forest and sends the bear a letter home. Soon, however, all the animals in the forest want to write letters to their friends, so that the letter system eventually emerges.
After a while, however, the tiger realizes that writing and receiving letters is no longer enough; That's why the tiger and the bear also invent the telephone by using the moles to lay hoses through the forest. Only the elephant cannot phone home, but at least the carrier pigeon takes over the airmail to Africa.
The little tiger and the little bear, however, are very satisfied and happy about their inventions and about life that is “very scary and beautiful”.

Radio plays

Various radio plays have been published for this book , including a. with Franz David Baumann, ISBN 978-3-8291-0518-7 , or with Günther Jauch , ISBN 978-3-7857-3274-8 . as a speaker.

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