Tigers & Tea With Toppy

"In this delightful, informative adventure, the granddaughter of wildlife artist Charles R. Knight narrates the life story of her “Grandpa Toppy” through their visits to museums and the zoo. During these trips, Toppy explains how, despite poor eyesight, he spent hours examining animals so that he could render them lifelike in drawings – and how he went on to imagine animals that are no longer living, bringing mastodons and dinosaurs back to life through art. The book manages to wrap natural history, family and lovely art into one inspiring package. After reading Tigers & Tea With Toppy, my 6-year-old son grabbed his paper, paint and brush and started creating his own “never-before-seen-extinct animals.”"