Lafcadio: The Lion Who Shot Back Hardcover - 2013
by Shel Silverstein; Shel Silverstein (Illustrator)
The bestselling children's book author offers the witty, thought-provoking fable of a lion whose marksmanship makes him world famous, but who discovers that "success" is not to his liking.
First line
Once there was a young lion and his name was-well, I don't really know what his name was because he lived in the jungle with a lot of other lions and if he did have a name it certainly wasn't a name like Joe or Ernie or anything like that.
From the rear cover
"You don't have to shoot me," says the young lion. "I will be your rug and I will lie in front of your fireplace and I won't move a muscle and you can sit on me and toast all the marshmallows you want. I love marshmallows."
But the hunter will not listen to reason, so what is there for a young lion to do? After eating up the hunter, Lafcadio takes the gun home and practices and practices until he becomes the world's greatest sharpshooter.
Now dressed in starched collars and fancy suits, and enjoying all the marshmallows he wants, Lafcadio is pampered and admired wherever he goes. But is a famous, successful, and admired lion a happy lion? Or is he a lion at all?
Told and drawn with wit and gusto, Shel Silverstein's modern fable speaks not only to children but to us all!
Details
- Title Lafcadio: The Lion Who Shot Back
- Author Shel Silverstein; Shel Silverstein (Illustrator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 50 Anv
- Pages 112
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Date 2013-09-24
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780060256753 / 0060256753
- Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.71 in (23.37 x 18.54 x 1.80 cm)
- Ages 04 to 08 years
- Grade levels P - 3
- Reading level 650
- Library of Congress subjects Lions, Shooters of firearms
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014378267
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- School Library Journal, 01/01/2015, Page 63
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