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WHEN LIONS ROAR is a caring and reassuring story of a young child who faces his fear and makes his world a safe place again.2012 Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka and bestselling author Robie H. Harris pair together to create a comforting story for young readers when their world becomes unsettled.Thunder is booming!A big dog is barking!Sometimes the world seems scary--too scary. But what if you shout, "GO AWAY!" Will the sun come out? Will a flower bloom?
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Horn Book Review
A young child (of indeterminate gender) is frightened by loud noises on a trip to the zoo -- from screeching monkeys and booming thunder to yelling parents and blaring sirens, each one simply described using the pattern seen in the title ("When big dogs bark!"; "When lightning cracks!"; etc.). Raschka's crayon and watercolor illustrations, using flat colors in orange, blue, green, and yellow, take the child through "the scary" until he/she is able to find calming spaces. Raschka once again shows his remarkable skill at using line and color to illustrate abstract concepts for young children. At the same time, his pictures provide a narrative context that's not obvious in the text itself: when a mom and a dad take their timid child to the zoo, they are hit by a sudden thunderstorm. The child's coping mechanism of drawing in, closing eyes, and telling the scary to "Go away!" is a skill any child can learn in order to calm himself. . .although it might not always make the sun come out quite so quickly as it does here. kathleen t. horning (c) Copyright 2013. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
What to do when sudden or loud noises bring "the scary." Here, Harris works the same theme as Ed Emberley's classic Go Away Big Green Monster (1993) but in a less abstract way. She catalogs upsetting sounds--from "When thunder booms! / When sirens blare!" to "When daddies yell! / When mommies holler!"--then suggests a remedy: shutting one's eyes and ordering "Scary! Go away" until "the quiet is back" and the world again becomes a sunny, peaceful place. The big, short lines of text are printed in various colors; Raschka uses the same palette to depict, with his typically free-looking brushwork, an anxious child of indeterminate sex suspended, with minimal background figures and details, on broad white pages. Except perhaps for a dog's bark, none of the noises are directly aimed at the child narrator. The level of "scary" is further reduced by showing Mommy hollering at a parking meter (or someone beyond it) and Daddy at something off the edge of the page rather than at each other. A tried-and-true strategy, though the fright fades with unrealistic speed in this iteration. (Picture book. 3-6)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.