Lion, Lion

Reviewed by: Cidney Mayes - Wells Public Library, Wells, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: February 11, 2015

Review

Lion is looking for lunch, and a young boy is looking for Lion. Readers will at first be confused when the lion asks the little boy what he is doing, and the boy replies "Trying to find Lion." Readers will be befuddled, then amused as the boy offers choices for lunch that the lion deems either too prickly, snappy, or stinky. Close attention must be paid to the pictures as well as the text for readers to see the clues within this book, such as turtles in the grass that the lion says are too snappy for lunch. Happily, the boy finds his kitten, Lion, at the end of the book by making the lion sneeze. The last page is a play on the same theme that will leave readers tickled. This is a sly and darkly humorous book for little ones, who will enjoy discovering the relationship between the text and pictures in the story.

Overall Book Score: good