If I Were a Lion

I'm sitting in the time-out chair because my mother put me there. She said, "You try my patience, child! I do not like it when you're wild."

Wild?

Who me?

That is so absurd.

How could she even use that word?

If I were a lion.

I'd growl and roar

And knock the dishes on the floor...

AND if I were a bear...

If I Were a Lion is a book for every child who's ever been sent to the time-out chair -- unjustly...or otherwise!

Child Magazine

"Wild? Who me?" asks an impish girl who is exiled to the time-out chair. There, she compares her behavior with that of the truly untamed: "Am I howling? Do I bark? Rummage through the trash at dark?" Howling dogs and a bear gnawing on a sofa cushion make the narrator seem not quite so beastly after all. Solomon's mixed-media illustrations have a high level of energy that perfectly suits the book's unruly menagerie. (Ages 4 to 6)
Child magazine's Best Children's Book Awards 2004

Sarah Weeks has written many books for children, including If I Were a Lion, Paper Parade, Angel Face, So B. It, and Two eggs, please. She lives in New York City. When Sarah can't get to sleep, she goes through the alphabet in her head, trying to think of people she knew in elementary school whose names begin with each letter.

Heather M. Solomon was named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start for Clever Beatrice, winner of the Charlotte Zolotow Award. She is also the illustrator of Clever Beatrice and the Best Little Pony by Margaret Willey and If I Were a Lion by Sarah Weeks. She lives in New Mexico with her husband, daughter, and son, who especially love to share joyous secrets.