The Tiger's Child - Torey Hayden

Since David Pelzer published his gruelling A Child Called It, he has since gone on to spawn 2 follow ups, as well as a self help book, and a myriad of similar material from various authors. His own brother has even cashed in on his success with a similar (if not better written) version of the events that took place in the Pelzer household. As well as the autobiographical, we also have various collections told from the point of view of bystanders - ranging from social workers, to family friends. They come with mixed results. Many are so badly written they are virtually unreadable. Some are gratuitious. And then there are the one's that are just ...

'Tigers Child' written by the great Torey Hayden. Torey is a special needs teacher and psychologist, her stories are true and based on troubled children she comes into contact with via the classroom. 'Tigers Child' is the follow on to 'One Child' which I have written a brief review on. My husband bought this book for me so I'm not sure how much it cost and where he got it from(probably WHSmiths),but the rrp is £5.99. It's quite tricky written a review on these kinds of stories without giving to much away. 'Tigers Child' does tend to repeat itself from 'One Child' but I don't mind this,it's more like a refresher to help you remember Shelia's ...

Tiger's Child ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is the follow up true story of the life of Sheila Renstad, whom Torey Hayden wrote about in the book "One Child" A book which I've already reviewed and was also made into a film "Untamed Love" ….also reviewed by me, (shameless plug LOL) In this book, the first few chapters are dedicated to telling us the abbreviated version of One Child, so if you haven't read that you get to know quite a bit about it, but in my opinion you really should read the first book before this…….. I found the fact that Hayden repeated most of that story over the course of the first four chapters quite irritating to be ...