Leaping Lemmings!

Sterling Children's Books
John Briggs, illustrated by Nicola Slater
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Age range 3 to 99

Lemmings look alike, sound alike, and act alike. So if one jumps off a cliff, the others follow . . . except Larry. Larry’s very independent-minded. But can he teach his fellow lemmings to think for themselves? John Briggs has created a wonderfully funny, quirky tale about doing your own thing, while Nicola Slater’s illustrations capture all the humor and pathos in Larry’s situation.

Contributor Bio

John Briggs is a longtime reporter and editor who once spent three years as a children’s TV critic. Today, he happily writes books for children. A native of Philadelphia, John currently lives in upstate New York, where he has never, ever jumped off a cliff.

Nicola Slater is a professional illustrator and a semi-professional coffee drinker. She studied illustration at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University and now lives and works among utter chaos in Manchester, England, with her family and a very bad cat, which she is planning to trade in for a lemming.

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