Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back
- ISBN-10
- 0060256753
- ISBN-13
- 9780060256753
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 112
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1963-01-06
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Author
- Shel Silverstein
Description
"You don't have to shoot me," says the young lion. "I will be your rug and I will lie in front of your fireplace and I won't move a muscle and you can sit on me and toast all the marshmallows you want. I love marshmallows." But the hunter will not listen to reason, so what is there for a young lion to do? After eating up the hunter, Lafcadio takes the gun home and practices and practices until he becomes the world's greatest sharp-shooter. Now dressed in starched collars and fancy suits, and enjoying all the marshmallows he wants, Lafcadio is pampered and admired wherever he goes. But is a famous, successful, and admired lion a happy lion? Or is he a lion at all? Told and drawn with wit and gusto, Shel Silverstein's modern fable speaks not only to children but to us all!
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