Lafcadio, The Lion Who Shot Back

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!

• | Author: Shel Silverstein
• | Publisher: HarperCollins
• | Publication Date: September 24, 2013
• | Number of Pages: 112 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0060256753
• | ISBN-13: 9780060256753