Leo was small and yellow, but he was no ordinary bird. The twittering, trilling, and singing of the other birds was so boring, it made him want to fly away. Always the same tunes! He preferred sitting on his favourite branch and daydreaming. Unfortunately, though, he couldn’t share his dreams with anyone – certainly not with the other birds. You see, Leo’s dreamed of a wild feline friend. Leo loved cats. “I’ll tell the cat about my dreams,“ he decided excitedly. “She’ll love them!“

With affectionately wry humour and elaborate, expressionistic illustrations, Julian Tapprich’s debut children’s book, Tiger Dreams, narrates the adventures of Leo, the little yellow bird. After his attempt to make friends with the cat next door miscarries, Leo sets out on a long trip into the jungle, where he’s heard there are really big, wild cats to match his big, wild dreams – tiger dreams!