\u201cPrides are usually made up of lionesses, their cubs, and one to a few adult male lions,\u201d the titular lioness explains. The savannah can be a dangerous place, and living together means \u201csafety in numbers.\u201d Our narrator is pregnant and knows her \u201cbabies need food to grow.\u201d She dispatches prey with strength and skills she learned from her own mother, who was \u201ca great hunter.\u201d No matter how much prey the lions take down, the food is shared with the whole pride. Motherhood means the lionesses must work even more closely, raising the cubs together, sharing their milk, and hunting in turns. The lioness teaches her growing cubs \u201ceverything,\u201d just as her mother taught her. Teamwork ensures survival: \u201cWe are mothers, we are hunters, we are protectors, we are teachers. And we are strong.\u201d Kyung\u2019s text, efficiently translated by Shin, provides an informative overview, complete with an appended page of further facts. The expansive spreads are what stand out, created in paint and pencil on traditional Korean handmade paper. Kyung leaves the realistic backgrounds in black and white, enhancing only the lionesses in rich, golden tones, artfully highlighting their essential authority. Though the hunts are sensitively portrayed, younger readers should be warned that hunting inevitably leads to killing.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cPrides are usually made up of lionesses, their cubs, and one to a few adult male lions,\u201d the titular lioness explains. The savannah can be a dangerous place, and living together means \u201csafety in numbers.\u201d Our narrator is pregnant and knows her \u201cbabies need food to grow.\u201d She dispatches prey with strength and skills she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}