Aurora, 60142, The Tiger Who Came To Tea, 10.5In, Soft Toy, Orange and White

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Invite children to talk about and retell this classic children’s story using our 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea' Sequencing Cards. But producer and joint managing director of Lupus Films, Ruth Fielding, said getting an A-list cast on board was the easy part. The book remains extremely popular [2] more than 50 years after it was first published, and a theatrical adaptation of the story has been produced. But there we were in the Blitz, people being killed every night, and nobody ever said anything nasty to them. Kerr, however, stated more than once that the tiger represents nothing more than a tiger, and had no relevance to her upbringing.

Children's author Michael Rosen has previously told the BBC: "Judith knows about dangerous people who come to your house and take people away. As he went out, I was going to say, 'There you are, nothing's happened' and my mother just gave me a terrible look and so I stopped. The original artwork for the book is held by Seven Stories, a children's literature centre in the UK.

Composer David Arnold said the score he wrote fell into place after he had finished writing the song which appears in the middle of it. As a result, many readers have suggested the tiger who comes to tea represents the Nazis, who disrupted the quiet, suburban lifestyle Judith was used to. They realised the impending threat from Hitler and Nazi Germany, and publicly criticised the regime. And a film is likely to reach more children in more countries around the world, than perhaps a book would.

My father would have had very special treatment by the Nazis, so a doctor friend of ours gave them suicide pills, and I said, 'What about me?

Children never fail to get the joke and this incredible situation is usually met with howls of laughter. Earlier this year, Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis said: "I remember asking Judith Kerr if the tiger symbolised the 1960s sexual revolution where normal mores and suburban life became upended by this wild and exotic creature. The reason she wanted to adapt this book into a film now, 51 years after she'd written it, was she wanted to reach more children around the world.