Monday, November 11, 2013

Happy Birthday Lafcadio!

Lafcadio Like You’ve Never Seen Him Before!

While it may be Lafcadio’s 50th birthday this year, we have a special gift for YOU, the fans: a rarely seen piece of Lafcadio art from the Shel Silverstein archives, available for viewing now and for a limited time. It didn’t make the book, but we still think he’s one cool cat.

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"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! 
 
 

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