The lion who wanted to love
David Wojtowycz, Giles Andreae
Released 1998 · Little Tiger Press
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A note for parents
This is a gentle, rhyming children's picture book celebrating friendship and choosing kindness over instinct. The story promotes empathy and acceptance through a lion's decision to befriend rather than hunt jungle animals. The minimal violence references are contextual to the lion's natural predatory role, not graphic or emphasized. It's an age-appropriate, heartwarming tale for early readers.
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A young lion decides he would rather be friends with the other jungle animals than try to eat them. A young lion decides he would rather be friends with the other jungle animals than try to eat them.
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- Children's poetry
- Children's poetry, English
- Fiction
- Friendship
- Jungle animals
- Juvenile poetry
- Lions
- Pictorial works
- Stories in rhyme
- Love
- Children's fiction
- Lion, fiction
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ISBN 9781888444254 · Little Tiger Press