Sunday, December 22, 2019

How to hide a Lion at Christmas by Helen Stephens



Image source The Sunday Times


Iris and her family will spend Christmas with Aunty Sarah. They need to travel there by train and mum says her lion cannot come.  Iris sadly says goodbye but her lion has other ideas. He follows the family and catches the train.  When he wakes up Iris and her family are gone. Lion is determined to find his friend so he simply begins to walk back along the rail tracks. Eventually he reaches a village - luckily it is the village where Iris is staying but how can he get inside the house? And who is that man in red heading down the chimney?

From the blurb:
"When the family go away for Christmas, Iris has to leave her lion behind. The lion can't bear to see Iris looking so sad, so he decides to sneak along, too. After all, how hard can it be for a lion to hide at Christmas."

Here is Helen Stephens web site. You can see pages from this book on the US Publisher web site. and on this page Helen shares her rough drawings and book creation process. How to hide a Lion at Christmas is the fourth book in this series:




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