We're Going on a Lion Hunt

by Margery Cuyler, Joe Mathieu (Illustrator)

Overview

We’re going on a lion hunt. Time to put on your safari hats, says a teacher before leading her class on an exciting imaginary journey. Off they go! They slosh through mud, splish-splash through rivers, swish through grass, and finally come face to face with a lion! Joe Mathieu brings the lion hunt to life with delightful illustrations rendered in Prisma colors, dyes, pen, and ink that add to this classroom fantasy based on a traditional game.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781477810583
Publisher:	Amazon Publishing
Publication date:	01/21/2014
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	34
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 6.80(h) x 0.20(d)
Lexile:	AD240L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

Author Margery Cuyler has written a number of award-winning picture books for children, including, among others, Skeleton Hiccups, That’s Good, That’s Bad!, and 100th Day Worries. The youngest in a large family, she has been writing stories since she was six years old. She lives with her husband and two sons in Princeton, New Jersey. Learn more about the author at: www.margerycuyler.com

Editorial Reviews

Printed in color, the action words are set apart from the black text, which is placed within the double-page illustrations. Mathieu’s colored-pencil and watercolor artwork bounces off the spreads. He gives the characters individual facial expressions, which convey their changing moods.” —School Library Journal

“An entertaining version of a ubiquitous imagination game for storytimes and animal-themed class units.” —Booklist

“...the classroom setting this outing offers make it a terrific invitation for young readers to take “Lion Hunt” out of the story circle for some happy dramatic play.” —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

The familiar nursery game "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" is adapted here, as a teacher invites her young charges on an imaginary safari riddled with such obstacles as mud, sticks, and trees. Cartoon-style pencil and watercolor illustrations enliven the somewhat tedious text.

Horn Book Guide

A gentle adaptation of the familiar call-and-response game. Teacher shows a picture of a lion and passes out safari hats to her multiethnic students, who look to be in kindergarten. Magically, their classroom door opens onto an African terrain, and the hunt is on. They slog through mud, snap through sticks, climb trees, splash through a river and swish through the tall grass before reaching the dark cave, where all that can be seen is a pair of yellow eyes. After getting too close to the king of the jungle, back they go, triple-time. The soft colors in Mathieu's pencil illustrations are attractive, and he offers a variety of facial expressions and action poses on the exuberant children in every two-page spread. While nothing beats or can replace the classic Rosen-Oxenbury collaboration, We're Going on a Bear Hunt (1989), the classroom setting this outing offers makes it a terrific invitation for young listeners to take "Lion Hunt" out of the story circle for some happy dramatic play. (Picture book. 3-7)

Kirkus Reviews