This Q&A originally appeared in BBC Wildlife Magazine , and was answered by Prenrna Bindra. Why do tigers have spots on their ears? When Grandma says she’s seen a tiger in the garden, Nora doesn’t believe her. She’s too old to play grandma’s silly games! Everyone knows that tigers live in jungles, not gardens.

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Is the tiger the world's biggest cat?

Bored at home with nothing to do, Nora is sent out to play in the garden in search of a tiger. Have your imaginations at the ready as our story unfolds and we see Nora’s world grow around her. Join Nora as she discovers dragonflies as big as her head, plants that can eat you whole, a polar bear that likes fishing and maybe, just possibly, a tiger in the garden. The whole park is a journey through Chinese Mythology and there are lots of lessons you can learn here.

Tiger Balm Garden (Fujian)– Located in Yongding County, Fujian Province, China; it was founded in 1946, but the location was abandoned in 1949. It reopened in 1994 as a museum. A garden was never built. [1]

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Tiger habitats vary by region, with the larger tigers of colder northern regions (like the Siberian tiger) living in the brutal taiga, while smaller tigers from warmer regions can happily live in arid forests, tropical rainforests and flooded swamplands and mangroves. India is the only country in the world that is currently home to both of these charismatic big cats, and history and biology say they can indeed co-exist. The felines’ ranges overlapped for millennia across much of western Asia – in India, this was the case into the early 19th century. As well as being illegally poached in the wild, tigers can still be legally farmed for their body parts in China. International trade in tiger parts is banned, but it's a different story domestically, where there's high demand for luxury rugs, tiger skin accessories, tiger bone wine and traditional medicines (which have never been shown to work). Nora refuses to believe outlandish tales of dragonflies as big as birds, grumpy polar bears, or a magnificent tiger all allegedly residing in Grandma's garden. Nora's too old for silly games. But this charming debut picture book proves one is never too young or too old to dream. Full color.