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Weeks, Sarah

If I Were a Lion

40 pp. | Atheneum | March, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-689-84836-6 $$15.95
(4) PS Illustrated by Heather M. Solomon. A preschooler banished to a time-out chair for being "wild" defends herself--"Am I howling? / Do I bark? / Rummage through / the trash at dark?"--while conjuring images of her (obedient) self watching various animals tear apart the house. The narration is implausibly sophisticated for a child this age, but the painstaking watercolor and gouache images of her fantasy life are just right.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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