(Reread) Review — The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo

The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo. | Format: Paperback, 116 pages, Candlewick Press, 2002. | Source: Own. | Add to your Goodreads TBR!

The Tiger Rising is perhaps one of Kate DiCamillo’s more beautiful, sadder books for Middle-Grade readers (and Young Adult readers and even Adults!). She is one of my favorite authors (I’ve got many) and has been since I was a kid when I was first introduced to her writing with Because of Winn-Dixie. I have read The Tiger Rising multiple times now, and with each read it just gets better and better. Although I do remember crying the very first time I read it as a child. This time, in 2015, I didn’t cry, but my heart ached terribly because now I am old enough to truly understand the symbolism and the pain in Rob and Sistine’s lives.