The Lion Children

The Lion Children is a non-fiction account written for children about a group of children who are taken to Botswana in 1995 by their mother Kate Nicholls to study the behavior of lions. The book was praised by British biologist Richard Dawkins who said, "This is an astonishing book, by an even more astonishing group of children."

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