Honey... Honey... Lion! A Story from Africa

Retelling: This story is based on an African Legend. The honeybird leads the badger to honey and expects some in return. One time, the badger doesn't save him any so the honeybird becomes angry. When the badger follows him again, the honeybird leads him to a lion.

Thoughts and Feelings: To me this

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story is about earning people's trust. If you don't keep your word, no one will want to do business with you again.

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I love the fact that they are to cute animal characters that are friends and then go through a selfish stumbling block

I thought this was a great book. It’s about a honey badger and a honey bird and it’s based in Africa. The honey bird finds the honey and the honey badger gets it and is supposed to share it with the honey bird. One day, the honey badger doesn't share and the honey bird gets angry and takes the

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honey badger on a crazy chase the next day to find the honey. The illustrations were fantastic. They were pretty elaborate, showed many different animals, and had all different interesting borders on each page. The story was also good and taught the basic lesson of not being too greedy.

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The honeyguide and the badger are partners when it comes to finding honey. When the badger sees the honeyguide, he follows because he knows there is honey near by. The honeyguide leads the badger to the honey because he can open the honey with his strong claws. One day, the badger was a little

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hungrier than usual, so he did not share any of the honey that the honeyguide found. The honey guide became very upset. She got an idea. When the badger awoke the next morning, he saw the honeyguide fly by. He chased her through a pond, and through tall grass, and over termite mounds. The badger was vert tired, but also hungry. The honeyguide dove into a bush and the badger dove in behind her. There was no honey. It was a lion! The badger ran and ran and ran until he was safe in his den. He then promised to always share the honey.

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Honeyguide and Honey badger are partners in finding honey. They break open the hive together and share in its sweetness. One day, badger would not share the honey with Honeyguide. This upset Honeyguide and made him angry. Honeyguide decided to trick badger and teach him a lesson. Honeyguide led

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badger to a lion instead of honey. All the animals knew that from then on if Honeyguide helps you that you better reward him or he might lead you to a lion also.

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This book follows the story of the honey badger not sharing with the honeyguide. The honey guide leads the badger on a long journey that ends with the badger running into a lion. The badger runs back home through all the paths he took before. The moral is to share with the honeyguide or share with

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your friends when they share with you.

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This book tells the story of a bird and a badger who are partners when it comes to consuming honey. One day, however, the badger fails to share the honey with the bird. To get revenge, the bird pretends to lead the badger to honey, but actually leads him to a lion, teaching him a lesson to share

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from now on. This book uses many onomatopoeias, such as "splish splash" and "swish." I could use this story to introduce the concept of words that imitate the sounds they refer to.

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A story about a bird and badge who work together to gather honey in Africa. One day the badger decides not to share the honey with the bird and the bird seeks revenge upon the badger. The bird keeps saying "honey, honey," and the badger follows the bird thinking she will lead him to more honey.

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However, at every turn an angry animal comes up eventually leading tot he lion. The forest animals all conclude that you do not cross the bird because she will lead you to the lion every time.

A story that encourages students to not take advantage of their friends or foes, because they could end up in a unwanted situation.

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After working together to obtain some honey, the honey badger and the honey guide (a bird) usually share the honey. One day, when the badger decides not to share, the honey guide teaches him a lesson.

Set in Africa, a small bird helps a badger find honey by following bees to their hive. One day the badger did not share the honey that was found by the guide, and the bird thought it was not fair. The badger did not pay attention to the bird, and the next day lead him allover Africa in order to

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retrieve the honey. Instead of leading the badger to the beehives, she led him to a lion that chased him back into his burrow. All of the animals learned that if the bird leads them to a beehive, they need to share or else she will lead them to a lion the next time.

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Honey...Honey...Lion! is a book about a honey badger and a honey guide. One afternoon the honey badger was following the honey guide to some honey. However, instead of sharing the honey with the honey guide, the honey badger decided that he was the one responsible for doing all the work and

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therefore he should get all of the honey. He ate so much honey he could barely walk back to his tree. The next day the honey guide was running, so the honey badger decided to follow it to get some honey. The honey guide took him through trees, up and down mountains, over logs, and just when the honey badger thought the honey guide found some honey, he realized he was staring straight at a lion. The lion chased the honey badger all the way back to his living location. The honey guide made it clear that if she was going to take him to find some honey, he had better share!

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A great book for teaching about the animals of Africa, as well as the moral don't be greedy!

This one gets a four star because it was my daughters favorite out of all the books we selected this week. Jan Brett has done an amazing job with the illustrations and retelling of an old folk story.

While I generally prefer African picture books that focus on African culture or folktales, Jan Brett's illustrations are always outstanding, far superior to her often insipid stories. This book is a good example. Some very poetic picture books are spoiled by substandard illustrations. Brett's

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illustrations are beautiful and intriguing. The story is a common "build on " story popular with small children and apparently with children's librarians. Brett beats the form to death in most of her books. But the illustrations here as so well researched that I have to give the book a high rating, nonetheless.

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After working together to obtain honey, the African honey badger always shares it with his partner, the honeyguide bird, until one day when the honey badger becomes greedy and his feathered friend decides to teach him a lesson.

A cute book regarding turning the tide on the other and getting even. In Africa, two animals work together with end end result of sharing the reward. The Honeyguide and the Honey badger are partners. Usually, the honeyguide finds the honeycomb and the honey badger, with long claws, cracks open the

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honeycomb and both share the reward.

Until, one day, greedy, hungry honey badger selfishly eats all the honey. Honeyguide is not happy and decides to lead a chase to what the badger thinks is his share.

However, on his tail was a huge lion. Badger ran as fast as possible, missing the lion's claws by mere inches.

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