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In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb
by
Marion Dane Bauer (Goodreads Author),
Emily Arnold McCully
In this exuberant, rhythmic story, March, personified as a lion, enters a boy's cozy home and leaves a trail of snow flurries and muddy footprints. The boy calmly observes the pouncing, howling, growling lion until in comes the lamb on the crest of a huge sneeze. Full color.
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
February 7th 2011
by Holiday House
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In the beginning of March, the lion wreaks havoc in the form of harsh winds and deceptively spring-like days with bitter, frosty nights but by the end of March, the weather is lamb-like with the days growing longer and the flowers and trees in bloom.
In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb is a very cute book that provides a fitting story to the famous phrase used for the title. The illustrations seem at once solid and wispy, like the wind could whisk them away like dandelion seeds.
Recommended for childr...more
In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb is a very cute book that provides a fitting story to the famous phrase used for the title. The illustrations seem at once solid and wispy, like the wind could whisk them away like dandelion seeds.
Recommended for childr...more
Personifying March first as a fierce and messy lion and then as a sneeze that heralds in the arrival of spring and a gentle lamb, this picture book ponders what happens to the lion after he leaves. It also follows the lamb's arrival with its accompanying allergies to all the spring buds and bugs. Some of the lines seem a bit cumbersome, and are all designed to set up the payoff on the last page. The illustrations consist of soft colors that reveal the personalities of both lion and lamb, both eq...more
In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb explores the popular March metaphor. The lion romps around, creating miserable weather everywhere he goes. His sneeze brings in the lamb, who brings delightful spring weather. Though the idea is clever, some of the rhymes were a bit forced. I didn't really love the illustrations either, though I've enjoyed Emily Arnold McCully's other work, namely Mirete on the High Wire. Best for ages 4 - 6, I'd probably skip this one for the K-5 library collection.
Jul 19, 2011
June
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
parents, teachers looking for spring titles
Recommended to June by:
cap choices
A cute picture book illustrating the saying March comes "In like a lion, out like a lamb." Lion - roar, rattle windows, scratches door, snow to mud, tromps across floor... Lamb section a little weak.
I like children's books about weather and seasons, and this one was pretty cute. I liked the illustrations too, especially the ones that covered two pages (left and right).
Actually, I thought the rhyming in this one was pretty well done, but I just felt like it was a little...eh. I would still recommend it, just wasn't to my own personal liking.
The transition from winter to spring in engaging verse and great illustrations.
nice personification of change from winter to spring
Very cute book (by a Minnesotan!) about the change in seasons.
cute story about the exit of winter/arrival of spring!
Good rhyming read-aloud for March!
charming...sweet...amusing....
Good for spring storytime.
perfect Spring read-a-loud.
lovely illustrations show the lion knocking on the door and creating havoc. Halfway through the story, the lion sneezes and in comes the lamb. The lion is not gone, though, just snoring until next March. A great way to introduce the saying portrayed in the title. I love the picture of the lion looking in through the window.
Welcome spring and the end of March with this book and hope along with all of us in Wisconsin that the snow will finally come to an end! Appropriate for ages 4-6.
Read the rest of my review at: http://wakingbraincells.com/2011/04/0...
Read the rest of my review at: http://wakingbraincells.com/2011/04/0...
Personifying March as both a lion and a lamb is a clever idea, but the rhymes in this book were clunky and lacked spark. When the lion sneezed and the lamb appeared in the spray, I thought it was gross (and not in a fun way).
May 21, 2013
Sarah
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Marion Dane Bauer is the author of more than eighty books for young people, ranging from novelty and picture books through early readers, both fiction and nonfiction, books on writing, and middle-grade and young-adult novels. She has won numerous awards, including several Minnesota Book Awards, a Jane Addams Peace Association Award for RAIN OF FIRE, an American Library Association Newbery Honor Aw...more
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