{"id":38473,"date":"2021-10-21T23:04:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T03:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=38473"},"modified":"2021-10-21T23:09:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T03:09:53","slug":"review-of-sun-flower-lion-by-kevin-henkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=38473","title":{"rendered":"Review of Sun Flower Lion, by Kevin Henkes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sun_flower_lion_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sun_flower_lion_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-40104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sun_flower_lion_large.jpg 250w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sun_flower_lion_large-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><em>Sun Flower Lion<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Kevin Henkes<\/p>\n<p>Greenwillow Books (HarperCollins), 2020.  32 pages.<br \/>\nReview written October 3, 2020, from a library book<br \/>\nStarred Review<\/p>\n<p>This is a brilliant book for very young children or very beginning readers.  The language is simple.  The pictures are simple.  But it\u2019s got patterns and a progression.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve got four things \u2013 the sun, a flower, and a lion, that are all drawn with the same basic pattern.  We\u2019ve also got six chapters.  Each chapter is just one spread or a spread-and-a-half.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the words for the first chapter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is the sun.<br \/>\nCan you see it?<\/p>\n<p>The sun is in the sky.<br \/>\nIt is shining.<br \/>\nIt is as bright as a flower.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the next chapter, we meet the flower, and then the lion.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite page is this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The lion runs home.<br \/>\nCan you see him?<br \/>\nNo, you can\u2019t.<br \/>\nHe is running too fast.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And it all ends with him cozy and back with his family.<\/p>\n<p>Amazing that Kevin Henkes can tell a satisfying story with so few words \u2013 and so few shapes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinhenkes.com\/\">kevinhenkes.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/pages\/childrens\">harpercollinschildrens.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0062866109\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/sun_flower_lion.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/sun_flower_lion.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sun Flower Lion by Kevin Henkes Greenwillow Books (HarperCollins), 2020. 32 pages. Review written October 3, 2020, from a library book Starred Review This is a brilliant book for very young children or very beginning readers. The language is simple. The pictures are simple. But it\u2019s got patterns and a progression. We\u2019ve got four things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,98,15,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-characters","category-good-for-the-very-young","category-picture-book-review","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38473"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40313,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38473\/revisions\/40313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}