Put a Tiger in the Tank

Put A Tiger In The Tank

Sally Breeze Green grabs the hearts and minds of young readers with a delightful children’s story of a girl, car, filling station and evangelism. Based on the old Esso gas slogan of yesteryear, Put a Tiger in Your Tank, is Sally’s third book, completing a trilogy of children’s stories with deeper meanings. Sally’s niece, Melissa Green, is the illustrator.

All three books came from Sally’s dream life of God awakening her in the night saying, “Write this down.” Tiger was originally the topic of a sermon delivered during her years as a lay preacher in the Presbyterian tradition and later adapted as a children’s story now being offered by Christian Faith Publishing.

Along with Sally’s first two books, Lo and Behold, a Christmas Story and Georgie! A Big Fish Tale, it is available on the internet at Amazon.com and bookstores everywhere.

Put a Tiger in your Tank was a slogan created in 1959 by Emery Smith, a young Chicago copywriter who had been briefed to produce a newspaper ad to boost sales of Esso Extra. The tiger wasn’t Smith’s invention. He’d first appeared as a mascot for Esso in Norway around the turn of the 20th century.