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    Early Reader: A Lion In The Meadow

    Margaret Mahy, Jenny Williams

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    It's never too early to share a good story with these easy-to-use Early Reader iBooks. Press on the pictures to make them move. Read on your own or use the 'read aloud' function. Enjoy sound effects that bring the text to life.

    Read, watch and listen to this classic story about a little boy who tells his mother he has seen a big, roaring, yellow, whiskery lion in the meadow. His mother soon decides to make up a story for him too and gives him a matchbox with a tiny dragon inside.

    This iBook contains audio on every page and 21 animated pictures. It is written by award-winning New Zealnd author, Margaret Mahy, and illustrated by Jenny Williams.

    A Lion In The Meadow is one of seven interactive Early Reader iBooks containing animation, sound effects and unabridged audio.

    Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing and reading together.

    A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey.

    A yellow Early Reader is a Touch and Listen iBook.

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    Margaret Mahy (Author)

    Margaret Mahy's many books - picture books, short stories, and fiction for teenagers as well as younger children - have been hugely successful all round the world and she is indisputably one of the most popular and successful twentieth-century children's authors. She has won the Carnegie Medal and many other awards, and has been nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. She lived in New Zealand until her death in 2012.

    Jenny Williams (Illustrator)

    Jenny Williams 1939 is a hugely talented illustrator whose style is recognisable at a glance. A native of London, Williams was educated at the Wimbledon School of Art and University of London. She started drawing as a very young child, making up stories about the characters she created and her drawings have appeared in many different types of books, including fairy tales and nursery rhymes, animal stories and folk tales, published throughout the world.

    Jenny Williams is a hugely talented illustrator whose style is recognisable at a glance. A native of London, Williams was educated at the Wimbledon School of Art and University of London. She started drawing as a very young child, making up stories about the characters she created and her drawings have appeared in many different types of books, including fairy tales and nursery rhymes, animal stories and folk tales, published throughout the world.

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