alisarae's review
5.0
Adorable and funny--though most of the jokes would fly right over the heads of the children reading it. I love the lion's cool logic and Ellen's impetuously optimistic imagination.
staceym's review
3.0
I love Harold and the Purple Crayon and The Carrot Seed. I found this book at the library. It's a sweet book about a girl and her stuffed lion.
amibo's review
5.0
Before Calvin & Hobbes or Toy Story, there was Ellen and her lion. Powered by her imagination and tempered by his rationality, the duo have conversations both silly and deep, and adventures such as going to Arabia on the playroom train and getting a drink in the DARK. Originally published in 1959, it has an “old-fashioned” sweetness, but exhibits a timeless understanding of children’s fears and imagination as well as a subtle humor that hasn’t lost any luster in the intervening years.
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