Cover of In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb

In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb

March comes in with a roar.

He rattles your windows

and scratches at your door.

In this exuberant, rhythmic story, March, personified as a lion, enters a boy's cozy home and leaves a trail of snow flurries and muddy footprints. The boy calmly observes the pouncing, howling, growling lion until in comes the lamb on the crest of a huge sneeze.

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Escorted by grass, flowers, sunshine, showers, and animal babies, the lamb brings forth spring.

Audience
picture bookschildrens
Length
short · 32 pages

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