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The Hungry Tiger is a fictional character from The Oz books
The Oz books

The Oz books form a book series that begins with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and that relates the "history" of the Land of Oz....
 by L. Frank Baum
L. Frank Baum

Lyman Frank Baum was an United States author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker, best known today as the creator, along with illustrator W....
.

The Hungry Tiger is a massive beast who is friends with the Cowardly Lion
Cowardly Lion

The Cowardly Lion is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by United States author L. Frank Baum. He is a lion, but he talks and interacts with humans....
. He is always hungry, no matter how much he eats, and longs to eat a "fat baby," though he never would because his conscience will not allow him to do so. He asks Nanda
Nanda

Nanda may refer to:* Nanda Dynasty, ruled Eastern India in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE* Nanda , in Hinduism, a peasant and foster-father of Krishna...
 for permission to eat her, and when she declines, he asks for a large quantity of beefsteaks, potatoes, and ice cream.






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The Hungry Tiger is a fictional character from The Oz books
The Oz books

The Oz books form a book series that begins with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and that relates the "history" of the Land of Oz....
 by L. Frank Baum
L. Frank Baum

Lyman Frank Baum was an United States author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker, best known today as the creator, along with illustrator W....
.

The Hungry Tiger is a massive beast who is friends with the Cowardly Lion
Cowardly Lion

The Cowardly Lion is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by United States author L. Frank Baum. He is a lion, but he talks and interacts with humans....
. He is always hungry, no matter how much he eats, and longs to eat a "fat baby," though he never would because his conscience will not allow him to do so. He asks Nanda
Nanda

Nanda may refer to:* Nanda Dynasty, ruled Eastern India in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE* Nanda , in Hinduism, a peasant and foster-father of Krishna...
 for permission to eat her, and when she declines, he asks for a large quantity of beefsteaks, potatoes, and ice cream. He wishes that a dentist could remove his appetite. At the banquet in the Emerald City at the end of Ozma of Oz
Ozma of Oz

Ozma of Oz, published on July 29, 1907, was the third book of L. Frank Baum's The Oz books series. It was the first in which Baum was clearly intending a series of Oz books....
, he acknowledges that he is finally full.

The Hungry Tiger was introduced in Ozma of Oz as one of Ozma
Princess Ozma

Princess Ozma is a fictional character in the Land of Oz universe created by L. Frank Baum. She appears in every book of the series except The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ....
's chariot drivers (the other being the Cowardly Lion), though Jack Snow
Jack Snow (writer)

John Frederick "Jack" Snow was an United States radio writer and scholar, primarily of the works of L. Frank Baum. When Baum died in 1919, the twelve-year-old Snow offered to be the next Royal Historian of Oz, but was politely turned down by a staffer at Baum's publisher, Reilly & Britton....
 and others believe he may be "the biggest of the tigers" in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's literature novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow. It was originally published by the George M....
. In Chapter 18 of The Patchwork Girl of Oz
The Patchwork Girl of Oz

The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum, is a children's novel, the seventh set in the Land of Oz. Characters include the Woozy , Ojo the Lucky "the Unlucky", Unc Nunkie, Dr....
, he is described as "the largest and most powerful of its kind," and having come from the forest where the Cowardly Lion ruled, which could be taken as an indirect statement that he is the same tiger that appeared in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

He is the co-protagonist of "The Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger," one of Baum's Little Wizard Stories of Oz
Little Wizard Stories of Oz

Little Wizard Stories of Oz is a set of six short stories written for young children by L. Frank Baum, the creator of the Land of Oz books. The six tales were published in separate small booklets, "Oz books in miniature," in 1913 in literature, and then in a collected edition in 1914 in literature....
 (1913). And he is the title character in Ruth Plumly Thompson
Ruth Plumly Thompson

Ruth Plumly Thompson was an American writer of children's stories. She is best known for continuing the children's fantasy Land of Oz series after L....
's sixth Oz book, The Hungry Tiger of Oz
The Hungry Tiger of Oz

The Hungry Tiger of Oz is the twentieth in the series of List of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the sixth written by Ruth Plumly Thompson....
 (1926).

In the comic book The Oz/Wonderland Chronicles #1 (2006), the Hungry Tiger helps the Cowardly Lion and two Tin Woodmen
Tin Woodman

The Tin Woodman is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by United States author L. Frank Baum. Baum's Tin Woodman first appeared in his classic 1900 book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and reappeared in many other The Oz Books....
 chase Alice Liddell
Alice Liddell

Alice Pleasance Liddell was the inspiration for the children's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Her surname Liddell is ...
.

David Maxine and Eric Shanower
Eric Shanower

Eric James Shanower is an United States comics artist and writer, best known for his Oz novels and comics and the on-going retelling of the Trojan War as Age of Bronze ....
 named their Hungry Tiger Press
Hungry Tiger Press

Hungry Tiger Press is an American specialty publisher of books, compact discs, comic books and graphic novels, focused on the works of L. Frank Baum, other authors of Land of Oz books, and related Americana....
 after the character.