In Like a Lion Out Like a Lamb

by Bauer, Marion Dane; McCully, Emily Arnold

• ISBN13: 9780823424320
• ISBN10: 0823424324
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-02
• Publisher: Holiday House

Summary

In this exuberant story, March, personified as a lion, enters a boy's cozy home and leaves a trail of snow flurries and muddy footprints. Then, escorted by grass, flowers, sunshine, showers, and animal babies large and small, in comes the lamb. the illustrations, a profusion of color and energetic line, celebrate March, spring, and life itself!

Author Biography

Marion Dane Bauer is the award-winning author of more than one hundred books for young people, from early readers to young-adult novels, including On My Honor, for which she was awarded a Newbery Honor Award.  She recently authored The Stuff of Stars which received a Coretta Scott King medal for illustration. She taught writing and served as a Faculty Chair at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, but now writes full-time.  She lives in Minnesota.

Emily Arnold McCully has won many awards, including the Caldecott Medal for Mirette on the High Wire and a Christopher Award for Picnic. She is the author and illustrator of numerous books, including Pete Won't Eat, which received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal, which said, "The illustrations are priceless." She lives in New York City and Columbia County, New York, where she is an avid gardener.