Lion's Lunch
Fiona Tierney, , illus. by Margaret Chamberlain. . Scholastic/Chicken House, $17.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-545-17691-0
Not only is the lion Sarah encounters in the jungle big and fierce, he's articulate, too. When she pleads that she was just taking a walk, Lion growls, “Nobody here just walks! We run, sprint, prowl, creep, swing, lumber, slither, swoop, gallop, and scuttle.” When it looks like Sarah might become Lion's main course, she keeps her cool, noting that she does have one talent that the animals don't—drawing. When she draws Lion with jagged fur and bared teeth, the other animals sense an ally, and speak truth to power: “You're bad-tempered and bossy,” they tell him. Tierney's (
Reviewed on: 12/21/2009
Genre: Children's