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Honey...Honey...Lion!: A Story from Africa
by
Jan Brett
For as long as anyone can remember, the honeyguide bird and the African honey badger have been partners when it comes to honey. Honeyguide finds the honeycomb, Badger breaks it open, and they share the sweetness inside. But this day, Badger keeps the honey for himself.
Hardcover, 30 pages
Published
August 25th 2005
by Putnam Publishing Group
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I love Jan Brett book, but this one is special because it's the first one I ever read. Her illustrations are fabulous and I read that she actually went to Africa for this book. I love the irony of the bird getting the badger and I love the ending of the story because no matter how many times you read the book to a child they jump and then laugh at the ending. As a teacher, I used the Jan Brett website and found coloring pages for the animals and various other ideas for the book. My class color...more
While I generally prefer African picture books that focus on African culture or folktales, Jan Brett's illustrations are always outstanding, far superior to her often insipid stories. This book is a good example. Some very poetic picture books are spoiled by substandard illustrations. Brett's illustrations are beautiful and intriguing. The story is a common "build on " story popular with small children and apparently with children's librarians. Brett beats the form to death in most...more
I love that this book is set in Botswana since I've been enjoying the Ladies #1 Detective Agency series which is also set there.
The illustrations in this one are very dense and realistic and go through a lot of animals (many specific to the Kalahari, I think). There are sound effects, which my son always likes, so I think this one was a winner. There were a lot of questions during the story (many repeated questions about why badger was led to a lion) so I hope it was educational. ...more
The illustrations in this one are very dense and realistic and go through a lot of animals (many specific to the Kalahari, I think). There are sound effects, which my son always likes, so I think this one was a winner. There were a lot of questions during the story (many repeated questions about why badger was led to a lion) so I hope it was educational. ...more
The honey guide and the honey badger worked together to get honey to eat, but one day honey badger decided not to share with honey guide and honey guide was furious. The next day, as pay back, honey guide leads honey badger straight to the lion’s den and honey badger narrowly escaped. All the animals knew if honey guide leads you to honey, you better share. I woud recommend this book for early elementary readers.
My students loved this book as a read aloud! One of my students was even able to make a connection and told me what a Honey Badger was before I began the book! The moral at the end of the story about being friendly and fair was a great lesson and my students were able to make connections to themselves. I asked them when they'd ever been unfair which led to an interesting mini discussion. Great book! :)
This is a wonderful tale from Africa. We had heard about honeyguide birds from the story Lions at Lunchtime, but this was a fun story about these fascinating creatures. It's a great book to read aloud. And as always, Jan Brett's illustrations are breathtakingly amazing.
I usually adore Jan Brett, but I didn't care for the lesson in this book. I wondered what my three year old would take away from it. That it's o.k. to be really mean to someone who has been selfish? Or that it's o.k. to laugh at someone who had something done to them? This was a state children's choice award this year, but I was disappointed with it.
I grabbed this book because I am familiar with Jan Brett's Christmas books and love them. This definitely did not disappoint! It is a fun story, perfect length for both my 2 year old and my 4 year old. And a bonus, we have learned some new info about African animals.
This book would be a good book for children to imagine. It has a lot of detail and takes them on an adventure. It is a good book for a discussion on how to treat others and what might happen to you if you don't.
Wonderfully illustrated. Honey...Honey...Lion is a great story about sharing the spoils of team-work and what can happen if one member of that team becomes selfish.
My favorite Jan Brett book. This is a fun choice for storytime. I also love using her books because her website provides so much content for use in libraries!
We loved reading a story from another culture, and my youngest enjoyed the flap hiding the lion. It offered a chance to teach my kids about onomatopoeia.
The Honey badger learns the hard way to share with the Honeyguide the honey that they get as a result of teamwork. There is a picture flap to expose the lion.
This story is about a bird and a badger. The bird always leads the badger to the honey, but it needs the badger to use its strong claws to bust open the hive. One day, the badger gets tired of it and decides not to share. The badger ends up chasing the bird all over the place until they run into a lion den, scaring the badger. The lion chases him all the way back to the end, teaching him a lesson.
This book is great because it teaches a lesson about sharing. It also has a quick s...more
This book is great because it teaches a lesson about sharing. It also has a quick s...more
Five stars for the illustrations but only one star for the story. This is for possibly grades k-3. Just not that interesting of a book.
This book shows that sharing is caring. It shows how being greedy and attached to materialistic things is not right.
Not my favorite Jan Brett book as far as storyline....love her illustrations, though.
Worked with students to read this book. Great book for Accelerated Readers.
we love Jan Brett...her art work and stories are so inviting...
Has a moral to the story :) A story from Africa. Very cute!
A neat folk tale from Africa, beautiful illustrations
This one gets a four star because it was my daughters favorite out of all the books we selected this week. Jan Brett has done an amazing job with the illustrations and retelling of an old folk story.
NIce to see a Brett story not set in Scandinavia.
Great kids book! Love it.
Preschool
This book is amazing. Well, maybe not amazing, but really, really great.
Jan Brett's artwork is fabulous. Full of detail. My kids pour over her books.
But this story is so fun and has such a great 'surprise' to it. My kids act it out for hours. Even the baby gets into it yelling "honey, honey, honey" as he runs up and down the hall.
Not only do we love to read this book, but we learned about various animals and it sparked a desire to learn more. ...more
Jan Brett's artwork is fabulous. Full of detail. My kids pour over her books.
But this story is so fun and has such a great 'surprise' to it. My kids act it out for hours. Even the baby gets into it yelling "honey, honey, honey" as he runs up and down the hall.
Not only do we love to read this book, but we learned about various animals and it sparked a desire to learn more. ...more
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I love all of Jan Bretts books. This one is not different.
The bird in the story helps out the badger until one day the badger decides to be greedy and not let the bird have any honey. The bird decides to teach the badger a lesson by leading him right in the path of a lion.
I would use this book to teach the lesson of not being greedy and sharing.
I would use this book to teach the lesson of not being greedy and sharing.
I can't resist a Jan Brett book because I love her illustrations. This story is one of the better ones she's written lately.
Gorgeous artwork. Moral: If someone helps you gain something, you better share it with that person, or watch out!
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With over thirty three million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation's foremost author illustrators of children's books. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.
As a child, Jan Brett decided to be an illustrator and spent many hours reading and drawing. She says, ...more
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