Lullaby Lion
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This issue's cover illustration is from Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's A Squash and a Squeeze. Julia Donaldson is interviewed by Lindsey Fraser. Thanks to Macmillan Children's Books for their help with this May cover.
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Lullaby Lion
Alison Bartlett
In barely twenty words and five picture openings, this delightful board book introduces us to Large Lion, loving and willing to play, but perhaps a little tired, and Little Lion, apparently tireless, but finally cuddling up and settling down. In glowing shades of red, yellow and orange, and with an alliterative text that moves from one lion to another ('Lazy Lion...Leaping lion / Lost lion...Looking lion'), the lions romp and snuggle as a sunlit savannah turns to night behind them. The perfect bedtime blend of text and illustration, whose warmth leaps off the page: 'Love you, love you, Lullaby lion!'