The Wounded Lion
A Tale from Spain

I never heard this story before, it was amusing to see a girl be gentle with a lion. The illustrations are one dimensional and the people are depicted as brown skinned since they are from Spain; God forbid that the Spanish Europeans are white skinned Caucasians. *eye roll* Stereotypical depiction by......more

A lot of my books this week were about different fairy tales from around the world. This one in particular stood out to me because it was the more interesting ones of the bunch. It's about a girl who finds a wounded lion and cares for it after every year, but when she does the livestock she cares fo......more

Is this a children's book that I read for french class? Yes. Yes, it is. Did I still count it as a book I read this year? Yes. Yes, I did and no one can judge me for it.......more