"You don't have to shoot me," says the young lion. "I will be your rug and I will lie in front of your fireplace and I won't move a muscle and you can sit on me and toast all the marshmallows you want. I love marshmallows."

But the hunter will not listen to reason, so what is there for a young lion to do? After eating up the hunter, Lafcadio takes the gun home and practices and practices until he becomes the world's greatest sharp-shooter.

Now dressed in starched collars and fancy suits, and enjoying all the marshmallows he wants, Lafcadio is pampered and admired wherever he goes. But is a famous, successful, and admired lion a happy lion? Or is he a lion at all?

Told and drawn with wit and gusto, Shel Silverstein's modern fable speaks not only to children but to us all!


一個詼諧、激發思考的寓言故事，述說一隻獅子偶然間學會了槍法，因而舉世聞名，過著富有的生活，而且變得像人一樣，打高爾夫球、潛水、畫畫….，但到了最後，這隻獅子卻發現「功成名就」並不是他所追求的…

這是作者最有趣的一本書，簡單的文字間，帶著些微狂


【適讀程度】
 Age Range: 6 - 8 years