What is the bloody point? All the tiger kids books have a point - apart from the Tiger who ate fucking everything and that stupid child was not afraid of him, but more worried over poor Papa's sausages. But I digress....
So Tiddler swims around, telling all his friends little stories that he's just made up. But they aren't his friends, because he's an irritating little twat who can't distinguish his flights of fancy from reality. If he were a person he'd be labelled a pathological liar and spend many an hour on a therapist's couch.
It's all a bit boy who cried wolf. But then one of his 'stories' is real and leads him home. The boy who cried wolf was in mortal peril and it was only the good towns peoples benefit of the doubt that saved him. There was no search party for Tiddler because Johnny Dory is also a fuckwit, just a load of a tells b tells c, oh look he's back.
So what kind of message is this giving our kids?
That's the last time I buy a book because it's pretty.