There's a Lion in My Cornflakes
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- USD 10.99
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- USD 10.99
Publisher Description
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!
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In this wry cautionary tale, Robinson (How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth) and Field introduce two brothers who make "a million trips to the supermarket" and spend a year's allowance on cornflakes to collect 100 coupons from the cereal boxes. The prize they are sending away for: a free lion. They're so keen on getting one that they don't mind that their peeved mother makes them eat "nothing but cornflakes until they were all gone." They do mind, though, when no lion arrives and all the other kids in town are happily playing soccer, skateboarding, and picnicking with their lions. The cereal company, which has run out of lions, sends the two boys a bear, crocodile, and gorilla, instead, and the resulting mayhem plays out hilariously in Field's loopy digital illustrations. Unfolding through younger brother Eric's don't-make-the-same-mistake-I-did narration, the story proceeds leisurely, but the underlying message about the value of standing out from the crowd goes down easy thanks to all the over-the-top animal shenanigans. Ages 3 6.
