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“Suddenly the door opened. In rushed a big, roaring, yellow, whiskery lion. ‘Hide me!’ it said. ‘A dragon is after me!‘”
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″‘You should have left me alone,’ said the lion. ‘I eat only apples.‘”
Margaret Mahy
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“The little boy and the big, roaring, yellow, whiskery lion went to play in the other meadow. The dragon stayed where he was and nobody minded.”
Margaret Mahy
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“So the lion in the meadow became a house lion and lived in the broom cupboard, and when the little boy had apples, stories and a goodnight hug, the lion had apples, stories and a goodnight hug as well.”
Margaret Mahy
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A Lion in the Meadow
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