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Created: 14th August, 2015

We're Going on a Lion Hunt

Author: David Axtell
Illustrator: David Axtell
Publisher: Macmillan

A variation on the traditional rhyme We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, familiar through the picture book by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury. In this version, two sisters bravely set out to hunt a lion – swish swash through the long grass, splish splash through the lake, squish squelch through the swamp. But, when they find the real thing inside a cave, they hastily turn and run for home. As well as the lion, other African wild animals can be seen in the pictures.