There's a Lion in My Cornflakes

by Michelle Robinson, Jim Field (Illustrator)

Overview

Sainsbury's Children's Book Award winner for Best Picture Book; A Guardian Best New Children's Book; The Sunday Times' Children's Book of the Week

If you ever see a box of cornflakes offering a free lion, ignore it!

This is the hair-raising story of two brothers who didn't – and then ended up with a grizzly bear, a cranky old crocodile, and a huge gorilla!

Now if only they could get a free tiger . . .

This hilarious and whimsical picture book with audio is sure to be a hit with kids and adults alike!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781619636972
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	05/05/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	9 MB
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Before she started writing funny stories for children, Michelle Robinson wrote copy and devised websites for some of the worlds biggest brands. Michelle lives in Frome, England, with her husband and two children. She is the author of board books Yak Yuk and Bear Boar, illustrated by David Sim.
www.michellerobinson.co.uk

Jim Field is a hugely talented illustrator. His first picture book Cats Ahoy! written by Peter Bently won the Booktrust Roald Dahl Funny Prize in 2011 and was nominated for the Kate Greenaway award. This is his first picture book for Bloombury. Jim lives in London.
www.jimfield.co.uk
Before she started writing funny stories for children, Michelle Robinson wrote copy and devised websites for some of the worlds biggest brands. She always dreamed of becoming an author like her hero, Roald Dahl. She shares his birthday and his love of chocolate, but she is much, much shorter. Michelle lives in Bristol with her husband and young son.

Editorial Reviews

[T]he underlying message about the value of standing out from the crowd goes down easy thanks to all the over-the-top animal shenanigans.” —Publishers Weekly

“A delightfully silly book with terrific illustrations . . . Will make young readers laugh out loud.” —School Library Journal

From the Publisher

2015-03-03
An all-too-successful cereal promotion leads to surprises, some of them unpleasant, for two lads who send in coupons for a free lion.As the British import starts out on a cautionary path, makes an abrupt turnabout, and then ends with what could be construed (on this side of the pond, anyway) as trademark infringement, it's all rather a muddle. After urging readers to ignore cereal coupons, a young narrator describes how he and his brother spent a year's allowance on 100 boxes of Mr. Flaky cornflakes only to see all their neighbors getting their lions first. Worse yet, they finally receive (because the company had run out of lions) a bad-tempered grizzly bear, a cranky crocodile, and finally a destructive gorilla. But then said animals are suddenly, inexplicably transformed from annoyances to assets (the croc, for instance, obligingly bites open cans). Furthermore, lions aren't worth the trouble—"EVERYONE'S got one"— but check out the new prize offering: a genial, anthropomorphic tiger! Field's lackadaisical scenes of tidy suburban chaos, swarms of mostly well-behaved (male) lions, and human figures with exaggerated expressions of dismay or irritation do little to boost the comedy or clarify the message, if any. This bland addition to the "unusual pets" genre misses most of the comedic possibilities and ends up a long way from "grrrrreat." (Picture book. 5-7)

Kirkus Reviews