One Yellow Lion – Book Review
Posted on 28. Jan, 2009 by KG in Book Reviews
Children’s Books – Preschool
CIDA News: Book Reviews
One Yellow Lion
by Matthew Van Fleet
One of our family’s best -loved children’s books is “One Yellow Lion”. The dog ears prove it. Advertised suitable for children over two, its appeal has long lasted us past the toddler years. The basic concept is simple: Teach colors, and numbers up to ten. Ah, but the realization!
Lift-the-flap pages encourage interaction of the younger audience, and even after the tenth, fiftieth or one hundredth time, the new number miraculously transforming into part of the featured animal, still elicits ohhs and ahhs.
Our personal favorite page is Ten Pink WORMS! The illustrations are whimsical, and the two extra fold-out pages in the back featuring both a beach scene and an animal pyramid offer opportunity to re-count the animal characters.
And characters they are: playful, bashful, silly, comical – piled up on top of one another, embedding in their illustrated antics all the features of the human nature: pride, strength, fun, fear, caring love and show-off dare. It’s subtle, but no doubt what appeals to older siblings, parents, grandparents and great-grandparents over and over again. I, for one, have yet to get tired of reading it. In all, a book that is for the whole family. It is simple, loving, and invites us to smile alongside our children about ourselves.
If you would like to find out more about the Author: Matthew Van Fleet and other books that he has written, including his #1 New York Times Bestselling Children’s Book, Dogs; check out the following video and then follow the link to Simon & Schuster.
Also stay tuned for his upcoming sequel to Dogs, (you have to watch the video to find out what it is) coming out Feb. 10, 2009.
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