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Meet Chloe: Every week, she collects loose change so she can buy tickets to ride the merry-go-round. But one fateful day, she gets lost in the woods on her way home, and a large dragon leaps out from—"Wait! It's supposed to be a lion," says Mac Barnett, the author of this book. But Adam Rex, the illustrator, thinks a dragon would be so much cooler (don't you agree?).

Mac's power of the pen is at odds with Adam's brush, and Chloe's story hangs in the balance. Can she help them out of this quandary to be the heroine of her own story?

 

Mac Barnett and Adam Rex are a dynamic duo, and two of the strongest contemporary voices in picture books today. In an accessible and funny way, Chloe and the Lion talks about the creative process and the joys and trials of collaboration. 

Review:

"Take a vaudeville stage with some flimsy painted scenery, two clay figures that represent Barnett and Rex (Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem), a brash and bespectacled heroine named Chloe (hand-drawn), a lion (also drawn), and some walk-on characters, and you've got a comedy sketch in picture-book form about the chaos involved in collaborative storytelling. The action plays out in photos of a small, makeshift stage on which Chloe gets lost in the forest and meets — a lion? Or should it be a dragon? 'Mac' and 'Adam' disagree vehemently about which would be cooler, and Adam ends up being eaten by the lion. Chloe tries to enlist the help of passersby to save him ('I only go after wolves dressed as old ladies,' says a strapping man felling trees) and eventually comes up with a solution of her own, one that allows for even more meta-comedy. As befits its work-in-progress nature, the story gets a little lost in the middle, but rat-a-tat dialogue and fresh visuals should keep it at the top of the bedtime pile. Ages 4 — 8. Agent: Steven Malk, Writers House. (Apr.)" Publishers Weekly Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781423113348
Author:
Barnett, Mac
Publisher:
Hyperion Books
Author:
Rex, Adam
Subject:
General Juvenile Fiction
Subject:
Children s-General
Subject:
Children s humor
Edition Description:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
20120431
Binding:
HARDCOVER
Language:
English
Pages:
48
Dimensions:
9.25 x 9.25 in 22.8 oz
Age Level:
from 4 up to 8
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Product details 48 pages Hyperion Books - English 9781423113348 Reviews:
"Publishers Weekly Review" by , "Take a vaudeville stage with some flimsy painted scenery, two clay figures that represent Barnett and Rex (Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem), a brash and bespectacled heroine named Chloe (hand-drawn), a lion (also drawn), and some walk-on characters, and you've got a comedy sketch in picture-book form about the chaos involved in collaborative storytelling. The action plays out in photos of a small, makeshift stage on which Chloe gets lost in the forest and meets — a lion? Or should it be a dragon? 'Mac' and 'Adam' disagree vehemently about which would be cooler, and Adam ends up being eaten by the lion. Chloe tries to enlist the help of passersby to save him ('I only go after wolves dressed as old ladies,' says a strapping man felling trees) and eventually comes up with a solution of her own, one that allows for even more meta-comedy. As befits its work-in-progress nature, the story gets a little lost in the middle, but rat-a-tat dialogue and fresh visuals should keep it at the top of the bedtime pile. Ages 4 — 8. Agent: Steven Malk, Writers House. (Apr.)" Publishers Weekly Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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