About this item
Highlights
- We're going on a lion hunt.
- 5-8 Years
- 8.3" x 6.8" Paperback
- 34 Pages
- Juvenile Fiction, Imagination & Play
Description
About the Book
A class of kindergarteners sets out bravely in search of a lion, going through mud, long grass, and other obstacles before the inevitable encounter with the lion forces a headlong retreat.Book Synopsis
We're going on a lion hunt. Time to put on your safari hats, says a teacher before leading her class on an exciting imaginary journey. Off they go! They slosh through mud, splish-splash through rivers, swish through grass, and finally come face to face with a lion! Joe Mathieu brings the lion hunt to life with delightful illustrations rendered in Prisma colors, dyes, pen, and ink that add to this classroom fantasy based on a traditional game.
Review Quotes
"Printed in color, the action words are set apart from the black text, which is placed within the double-page illustrations. Mathieu's colored-pencil and watercolor artwork bounces off the spreads. He gives the characters individual facial expressions, which convey their changing moods." --School Library Journal
"An entertaining version of a ubiquitous imagination game for storytimes and animal-themed class units." --Booklist
"...the classroom setting this outing offers make it a terrific invitation for young readers to take "Lion Hunt" out of the story circle for some happy dramatic play." --Kirkus Reviews