Reading level: Grades Pre-k-2
Award: CCBC Choices

The humor in the books is really for the parents of children, but kids will be delighted by the animal sounds and the vibrant illustrations. They will sympathize with the unnamed is put on "time out" for misbehaving. ( )

Told from the perspective of the young girl who is in a "time out" chair. With each panel the girl sates If I were a (fill in he animal) and proceeds to state quite clearly she is way better than that. ( )

If I were a lion is about a little girl who is put in time out by her mother for misbehaving. Even though we are never told what she did wrong, the book tells the story of what the girl is thinking while she is in time out and how she is not "wild" as her mother says she is. ( )

This book is about a little girl who is punished by her mom for being "wild". She names all the wild animals and thinks about how she is not anything like them. This story is very cute. I loved this book because i loved how it goes inside a kid's head when they are in time out. ( )