Loe the Dyslexic Lion [Kindle Edition]

What a delightful anthology of poems, I want it in print!! I bought this after it was recommended by a friend and I am so glad that I did. The writing flows wonderfully and its a joy to read such thoughtful and funny poems especially about difficult subjects. Being different is never easy as we all found out growing up and some of these really made me think back to my childhood and how I would have loved poems like these to be read to me, to make me smile when things were tough.

I think adults and children alike will love this book and its quirky characters, Rambo the Rhino is my personal favorite! It makes you smile and when you smile you feel better about things, and there is too little of that around these days. Fantastic book, highly recommended.

This fantastic book begs for illustrations, and a print version to be read aloud at bed-time.

Loe the Dyslexic Lion and other feebles' collection of poems is intelligent, funny and heart-warming. A joy to read aloud, the book is aimed at children, but is likely to appeal to grown-ups too. Because book tells it's message well, and it's message is pure chicken soup wisdom for issues that are at once timeless, relevant and important. I think that with the right publisher it has the potential cross-over appeal of other supposed children's books like Stargirl.

Granted there are a few very nits I could pick if I got out a very fine-tooth comb, but many of these are due to the Kindle format, which is a mixed blessing and not the most natural for the book. In my view much of the intro is too detailed for it's audience. And there are also a couple of bits of poetic license that niggled; man does occasionally get eaten by other animals, and there is rain in Africa for example.

But the beautiful, touching poems made me laugh, and they communicate important messages. And as the mother of a bright, beautiful and bespectacled four year old I look forward to reading this book at at bed time and dipping into it when my daughter struggles to understand difficult, but inevitable issues. And if an illustrated print version / audio version became available I can think of at least five children of varying ages, my daughter included, who I would buy it for immediately.

I have downloaded this book after it was recommened by a friend. It was for my daughter who is fascinated by the Kindle and now insist that all bedtime stories are read to her from it.
So I have this new book which have just read to her, aloud, from cover to cover without noticing she had long sinse fallen asleep.
Each of the rhymes is written with a moral for the kids and a sense of humour leaving grown ups to read it cover to cover.
I don't just recommend this book to parents but also to anyone wanting to smile at something with a clean sense of humour knowing that they have also donated to a good charity.
I hope to see more from Loe and his friends.