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Created: 22nd May, 2019

How To Be a Lion

Author: Ed Vere
Illustrator: Ed Vere
Publisher: Puffin

Leonard does not conform to the stereotype of how a lion should behave. He is gentle, writes and reads poems and, most disconcertingly in the opinion of other lions, has no intention of chomping his duck friend Marianne with whom he has much in common. Leonard and Marianne go to their thinking hill and come up with an idea to show the other lions they are wrong and that there is more than one way to be, although the ending implies that there no easy answers to these questions.

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An introduction to Ed Vere

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How to Be a Lion read by Ed Vere

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Ed Vere: Illustrating a character from How to be a Lion

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Ed Vere: Creating characters from shapes

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Ed Vere: The writing process behind How to Be a Lion

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