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5th out of 93 books
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205 voters
Chloe and the Lion
by
Mac Barnett,
Adam Rex (Goodreads Author)
Meet Chloe: Every week, she collects loose change so she can buy tickets to ride the merry-go-round. But one fateful day, she gets lost in the woods on her way home, and a large dragon leaps out from-"Wait! It's supposed to be a lion," says Mac Barnett, the author of this book. But Adam Rex, the illustrator, thinks a dragon would be so much cooler (don't you agree?).
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Hardcover, 48 pages
Published
April 3rd 2012
by Disney-Hyperion
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Authors...they can be so snooty. And Illustrators--so temperamental. Apparently.
Author Mac Barnett is telling a story, and Adam Rex is illustrating the story for him. The story is about a girl named Chloe who is walking through the woods when she comes across a ferocious lion! What a great story! But Mac gets a little too picky with the images Adam has drawn, and well, Adam won't stand for it. He quits.
No problem. As the author of the story, Mac just writes another illustrator into the story....more
Author Mac Barnett is telling a story, and Adam Rex is illustrating the story for him. The story is about a girl named Chloe who is walking through the woods when she comes across a ferocious lion! What a great story! But Mac gets a little too picky with the images Adam has drawn, and well, Adam won't stand for it. He quits.
No problem. As the author of the story, Mac just writes another illustrator into the story....more
I'm not sure where to begin with this book. It's not a female version of Andy and the Lion which is kind of what I expected when I picked it up. It's by author Mac Barnett (who wrote Extra Yarn, which was a Caldecott Honor Book in 2013, illustrated by Jon Klassen, who actually won the Caldecott Medal, but for a different book) and illustrator Adam Rex (who wrote The True Meaning of Smekday, which was one of the SLJ Best Books of the Year when it came out.) There, does that do it for you?
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This is a very imaginative book. It reminds me of Wiesner's "The Three Pigs." It's not your typically illustrated story. The illustrations are vital to the story and in fact carry at least half the tale. I think this book should be considered for Caldecott, but doesn't have much chance of winning. The author experienced artistic differences with his illustrator, and the characters must struggle on without much support. The author wants a lion, but the illustrator draws a dragon because "it's muc...more
Having just returned from Las Vegas where everything is somewhat surreal, including checking in and checking out of the hotel where slot machines and smoking are just a few feet away, I was ready for a cleverly written and illustrated picture book like this one. Although the author describes Chloe, a girl who saves up coins she finds so she can ride on the park merry-go-round, as the main character of the book, she really isn't. The actual main characters are the author and illustrator who squab...more
Nobody does off-the-wall, slightly cracked humor like Mac Barnett and Adam Rex. Chloe is identified early on as the main character in the book, but it's really Mac, who learns an important lesson about teamwork. When I shared this book with my husband, I giggled over and over again and kept stopping to really enjoy the art. Rex's art has multiple levels and the artist's note on the CIP page includes a laundry list of materials and mediums: basswood, balsa wood, oil and acrylic paints, pencil, Sc...more
Summary: “Chloe and the Lion”, by Mac Barnett is the story of a young girl named Chloe, an author named Mac and an illustrator named Adam. Throughout this book no one can agree on anything, especially how the pictures are drawn. So Mac fires Adam because Adam will not draw what Mac wants. When another artist is hired, well, he just does not draw the pictures like Adam. Mac soon realizes this and goes on a journey to get Adam back. Throughout this story we learn about relationships and the wrong...more
Meta picture books! You can never have too many meta picture books! Well, ok, you probably (definitely) can, but the market isn't as saturated with them as they are with, say, dystopian novels (but I still love dystopians!). Plus, most of the meta-books I've read (We are in a Book!, The Cat in the Hat, Interrupting Chicken) have been really good! Chloe and the Lion is no exception, and I'm sure the excellent combination of author Mac Barnett and illustrator Adam Rex helped!
The book starts as a l...more
The book starts as a l...more
This was cute. I'm really not sure if it's something kids could fully appreciate, even though it's a picture book and shelved in the kids section.
It's kind of about story telling and working together and compromising, though. The author and the illustrator get in an argument in the middle of the book which is cool. In the end, they need to find a compromise that works not only for the author and illustrator, but also for the character--I liked how they included the character as someone who neede...more
It's kind of about story telling and working together and compromising, though. The author and the illustrator get in an argument in the middle of the book which is cool. In the end, they need to find a compromise that works not only for the author and illustrator, but also for the character--I liked how they included the character as someone who neede...more
From time to time, children’s board books fall into the same rut of princess and happily ever after. Well, I have no idea what was rolling around in the minds of Mac Barnett and Adam Rex, but I can tell you that there is no way you will find a sparkly princess or get bored reading this book.
To be honest, I am not one hundred percent sure that it is a child’s book, so right there it should tell you that it deserves to be picked up. Mac and Adam not only wrote and illustrated this book, but they a...more
To be honest, I am not one hundred percent sure that it is a child’s book, so right there it should tell you that it deserves to be picked up. Mac and Adam not only wrote and illustrated this book, but they a...more
The new children’s book Chloe and the Lion is from author Mac Barnett and illustrator Adam Rex. Here is what I knew about Barnett and Rex before I read the book: next to nothing. I knew that Adam Rex was funny because I want to retweet everything that I see on his twitter account because the guy is hilarious. As for Mac Barnett, I hate to admit, I hadn’t seen his books on the KidLit radar, I hadn’t heard about his other fabulous picture books or his awesome MG novel series (Brixton Brothers). Af...more
A tour-de-force for witty readers from age 6 to 126, this picture book, ostensibly about a young girl's confrontation with a scary lion (but a dragon would have been cooler), has everything I love: a strong female lead, a carousel, and the gleeful utter demolition of the fourth wall. The power-mad author petulantly wins a dispute with the insouciant illustrator over the lion vs. dragon issue (which dispute features a delightful little take-off on the immortal Looney Tunes meta-cartoon "Duck Amuc...more
Pity the picture book author. Their lot is rife with strife. With a couple exceptions here and there it is mighty hard to make picture book authorship your one and only occupation. Many times the writer in question has to supplement their income with class visits to schools and libraries around the country. That in and of itself isn’t exactly a huge hardship, but here’s the pickle. I would suspect that nine times out of ten there’s at least one kid in the audience who raises their hand and asks...more
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We've been reading as many books by Mac Barnett and Adam Rex as we can find at our local library. We really enjoyed the humor in Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem and our girls were really excited to read this book.
It did not disappoint. The mixed media illustrations as well as the conversation between the author and illustrator made the story come alive and we laughed throughout the whole book. The story was very creative and humorous and the illustrations really created the tale. We r...more
It did not disappoint. The mixed media illustrations as well as the conversation between the author and illustrator made the story come alive and we laughed throughout the whole book. The story was very creative and humorous and the illustrations really created the tale. We r...more
This is not for little kids. This is for older kids who will get the game, which goes back to Warner Brothers immortal "Duck Amok" and other such cartoons where the subject and the artist battle. Here this goes further, with a battle between author and artist while the poor subject of the book suffers.
This is funny, I suppose. But I prefer Melanie Watts "Chester" books which are funnier and far more accessible not just to older kids and hipster librarians and teachers and other adults. The autho...more
This is funny, I suppose. But I prefer Melanie Watts "Chester" books which are funnier and far more accessible not just to older kids and hipster librarians and teachers and other adults. The autho...more
I found this book pretty funny but I'm not convinced a preschooler will find it so. And you might notice my shelf lists this as okay for a third-grader. That's kind of an outside stretch because by then it's so not cool to be reading picture books. However, there are some great pic books out there for older readers and this one, because I think the humor is more sophisticated, is one I think they would enjoy. Even if they read it on the sly. The plot has the author arguing with the illustrator a...more
Even though this is a picture book the content is about authorship, illustrating, and creating character and story. Pretty heady stuff for your average toddler. I personally enjoy this type of play very much and I like Adam Rex's inventive interplay of different media to illustrate the story. The plasticine figures representing Mac (the author), Adam (the illustrator), and Hank (the back up illustrator) give added dimension to this theme of who creates who and reality versus imagination. The sta...more
Psst! by Adam Rex is one of my favorite books, what with its humorous, graphic illustrations and surprise ending. Mac Barnett's storytelling style is so similar, it doesn't surprise me that he and Adam Rex have partnered on several books as author and illustrator, like the book Chloe and the Lion. My 6 year-old daughter loved the book for its mixed media pictures - drawing and clay. She also laughed at the banter between the author and illustrator within the book. My husband and I love the book...more
I love stories that make children laugh AND know that kids are really smart. They don't just rely on slapstick humor or potty language (although those laughs are also fun). Some books make kids think to realize the full humor in a story, and the payoff is even bigger. Chloe and the Lion is a book that will bring lots of laughter, but also some interesting "a-ha" moments as kids think about cooperation and creativity, about pictures and words in the books they love. Best of all is the way that Ma...more
I loved "Extra Yarn" so I was excited to find that Mac Barnett and Adam Rex collaborated on several other books as well. I enjoyed this book because the author, Mac Barnett and the illustrator, Adam Rex, both end up as characters in the story. My only gripe is that it was a little long, even for older kids, who I think would lose interest in the book halfway through.
The book tells us the story of Chloe who collects loose change everywhere so that she can use the money to go on the merry-go-roun...more
The book tells us the story of Chloe who collects loose change everywhere so that she can use the money to go on the merry-go-roun...more
Chloe and the Lion is a nominee for the 13-14 South Carolina Picture Book Award.
Chloe and the Lion is not your ordinary children's picture book. This laugh-out-loud romp is probably more fun for adult readers than it is for kids. (Even the "about the author" section on the back flap is funny.) The book invites readers into the world of actually creating a story and the many ups and downs, twists and turns that may go with it.
Author Mac Barnett and illustrator Adam Rex have created something trul...more
Chloe and the Lion is not your ordinary children's picture book. This laugh-out-loud romp is probably more fun for adult readers than it is for kids. (Even the "about the author" section on the back flap is funny.) The book invites readers into the world of actually creating a story and the many ups and downs, twists and turns that may go with it.
Author Mac Barnett and illustrator Adam Rex have created something trul...more
Grades K-3
A truly original, silly, funny, and downright cool picture book about a girl named Chloe, a loose-change finder who ends up lost in the woods after a dizzyingly long merry-go-round ride... where she meets a huge lion. (The lion is really a dragon, not a lion. Illustrator Adam Rex has been fired for replacing the lion with a "cooler" dragon. Sorry. The remainder of the book will be handled by a true illustrator who can follow directions. Apoligies for this interruption.)
So Chloe, in the...more
A truly original, silly, funny, and downright cool picture book about a girl named Chloe, a loose-change finder who ends up lost in the woods after a dizzyingly long merry-go-round ride... where she meets a huge lion. (The lion is really a dragon, not a lion. Illustrator Adam Rex has been fired for replacing the lion with a "cooler" dragon. Sorry. The remainder of the book will be handled by a true illustrator who can follow directions. Apoligies for this interruption.)
So Chloe, in the...more
This picture book pokes fun at the relationship between and author and illustrator of a picture book, while showing how important that relationship really is. You meet the author (Mac Barnett) and the illustrator (Adam Rex) and main character (Chloe) at the beginning of the book. The story lines progresses smoothly until Mac wants a huge lion in the story and Adam thinks a dragon would be cooler. So, Mac fires Adam and finds another illustrator, who doesn't work out either. He then tries unsucce...more
Disney/Hyperion, 2012
Picture Book
44 pages
Recommended for grades 3+
Speaking of adding to classroom libraries, this is a must! These two chums are hilarious. Even the about the author scores high on the awesome level.
Mac writes a story about little Chloe saving the coins she finds throughout the week to ride the merry-go-round at the park on the weekends. But the simple story is repeatedly interrupted as Mac argues with first Adam, and then his replacement illustrator. Kids get such a kick out of...more
Picture Book
44 pages
Recommended for grades 3+
Speaking of adding to classroom libraries, this is a must! These two chums are hilarious. Even the about the author scores high on the awesome level.
Mac writes a story about little Chloe saving the coins she finds throughout the week to ride the merry-go-round at the park on the weekends. But the simple story is repeatedly interrupted as Mac argues with first Adam, and then his replacement illustrator. Kids get such a kick out of...more
I love when there are books that dare to be different, because that is what I want student writers to know, or unlearn—that rules they think they know as unchangeable can be changed. The story is about a little girl named Chloe, I think. Really it’s about writers and illustrators and who gets to move the story along. There are arguments and changes, and the illustrator is fired, but really he is just eaten by the lion that he has not drawn well because he thinks a dragon would be better. There...more
Funny! This was recommended by my friend Sara and I got it from the library even though it was a picture book and I don't usually spend time reading them. I read it and spent ten minutes laughing out loud alone in the house. Laughing out loud while reading by myself is always an odd pleasure for me. There's the laughter, which is great, but then the kind of creepy feeling that I might be a little crazy. After I enjoyed it, I insisted that Matt read it. Now I'm insisting that you do too. It will...more
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I am a huge fan of the Mac/Adam combo, and this book cracked me up with the amount of silly wit that you'd expect from Mac Barnett.
The illustration style is fantastic- I love that it sets a scene for the reader, like a little play, just for you. Then, you have the awesome claymation Adam and Mac, which blew me away.
So: it's funny, clever, and well-illustrated. But wait! There's more!
The author/illustrator relationship is nicely explained, so this would be a good classroom book. But then(!), it...more
The illustration style is fantastic- I love that it sets a scene for the reader, like a little play, just for you. Then, you have the awesome claymation Adam and Mac, which blew me away.
So: it's funny, clever, and well-illustrated. But wait! There's more!
The author/illustrator relationship is nicely explained, so this would be a good classroom book. But then(!), it...more
This funny story explicitly shows readers the relationship between author and illustrator, as well as between pictures and text. The author begins by introducing himself and his illustrator, and he begins the story of Chloe and the lion. However, the illustrator draws a dragon instead, because he thinks a dragon is "cooler." The author and illustrator have an argument, and the author fires him. After trying to work unsuccessfully with another illustrator, and even trying to draw the pictures him...more
While I love that this is a meta-data picture book, I feel that many younger children who try this book will end up super confused. It is promoted as a children's picture book but younger teens and adults will get much more out of the story. As a children's librarian this is not a book I would ever read aloud. There are so many illustrations and little inconsistencies among the pages that reading it out loud would only confuse the audience. As a stand alone book the story works for the most part...more
I LOVE this book! It is so unique.
The author begins by introducing himself, the illustrator, and the main character. As he tells his story, the illustrator takes some liberties and the illustration no longer matches the story. Mac, the author, gets upset and finds a new illustrator, but he isn't exactly what Mac was looking for either. Naturally, Chloe, the main character, gets upset because she wants to have her happy ending, but is stuck in the middle of the author vs illustrator battle. This...more
The author begins by introducing himself, the illustrator, and the main character. As he tells his story, the illustrator takes some liberties and the illustration no longer matches the story. Mac, the author, gets upset and finds a new illustrator, but he isn't exactly what Mac was looking for either. Naturally, Chloe, the main character, gets upset because she wants to have her happy ending, but is stuck in the middle of the author vs illustrator battle. This...more
I've got to appreciate a super-meta picture book that plays with conventional plot structure, and in this case, illuminates the perhaps conflicting relationship between author and illustrator. But with Mac Barnett and Adam Rex appearing as major players within the story, it comes off a bit self-indulgent. Also, the story tries hard to pull off too many elements. Still, a notable effort. This could be fun paired with What Do Illustrators Do?.
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Born to non-farmers in a California farming community, Mac now lives near San Francisco. He's on the board of directors of 826LA, a nonprofit writing center for students in Los Angeles, and he founded the Echo Park Time Travel Mart, a convenience store for time travelers.
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