About this book

This favourite Munsch tale gets a fresh new cover treatment!

After their father reads them a story about lions, Elena and Isaac decide to become lions too. Growling their way through breakfast, and gnawing on "bones", they soon trot off to school. But it's only when one of their teacher decides to take both of their classes outside to look for animals that Elena and Isaac can really become kings of the jungle!

With a grrroooowwwwlll here and a grrrauuuughhh there, Robert Munsch delivers another irreverent snapshot into the world of children and their imaginations. It will leave all readers howling with laughter!

Behind the scenes

Robert Munsch made up this story in 1992 at a daycare in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, on the same day that he made up Lighthouse. For a long time the story was called “Growl,” and it didn’t have a specific kid in it. Then, all of a sudden, Scholastic wanted to publish it as a book, and he needed a kid! He had been sick and was stuck in his house getting better, so he got up and walked across the street to a family that he knew and asked if they wanted to be in a book. They said “Yes!” There were two kids, Isaac and Elena, so he changed the story to a two-kid story and it was even better that way. When he tells the story, the audience joins in louder and louder each time he says “ROAR!” ART ALERT! Did you notice which book is lying on the floor beside Elena? It’s Just One Goal!

Extras

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