{"id":14002,"date":"2019-08-13T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=14002"},"modified":"2019-08-08T13:22:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T17:22:01","slug":"an-unordinary-lion-by-dragana-vucic-dekic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/13\/an-unordinary-lion-by-dragana-vucic-dekic\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unordinary Lion By Dragana Vucic Dekic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/51lj8buoIcL._SL250_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/51lj8buoIcL._SL250_.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/51lj8buoIcL._SL250_-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Reviewed by\nMarcy Schveibinz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Young readers will enjoy this rhyming tale about a\nferocious lion who was pretty ordinary until the day he injures himself. He\nbecomes unlike other lions that can run fast to catch their prey and now must\nrely on plants for food. He learns from other strong plant-eating animals and realizes\nthat he too can be strong without eating animals. The injury helps him to\nreflect on the harm he was causing other animals. He realizes a fringe benefit\nof eating plants is kindness and in the end embraces his new lifestyle. The\nstory teaches readers about different animals that thrive only on plants and\nhelps them to identify with the lion in how he showed compassion toward other\nliving beings. Another moral of the story that kids will also learn is that you\ncan turn an unfortunate situation into something positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>An Unordinary Lion<\/em> (ISBN 978-1093275704) is published\nby Dragana Vucic Dekic for young readers ages appropriate for ages 4-8. This 29\npage soft cover picture book retails for $9.95 and can be purchase online. For\nmore information about other books by the author, visit the author\u2019s blog at <a href=\"https:\/\/momthemuse.com\">https:\/\/momthemuse.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Marcy Schveibinz Young readers will enjoy this rhyming tale about a ferocious lion who was pretty ordinary until the day he injures himself. He becomes unlike other lions that can run fast to catch their prey and now must rely on plants for food. He learns from other strong plant-eating animals and realizes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14004,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14002\/revisions\/14004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}