  | Lion Lights : my invention that made peace with lions Author: Turere, Richard | |
| Price: $23.26 | ||
Summary:
This is Richard Turere's true story of growing up on a farm in Kenya. Richard's challenge was to protect his cows from the lions who prowled the night. Richard noticed that lions stayed away when he was outside with a flashlight. At age 12, using salvaged electrical components, he surrounded the stockade with blinking lights, and the lions stayed away! His Lion Lights are now used on three continents to protect farm animals from harmful predators.
| Added Entry - Personal Name: | Pollock, Shelly |
| Illustrator: | Possentini, Sonia M. L. |
| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: LG Reading Level: 3.70 Points: .5 Quiz: 519013 |
Reviews:
Booklist (07/01/22)
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Booklist - 07/01/2022 In a true tale bound to inspire all young would-be inventors, Turere describes how, at the age of 12, he came up with a cheap and ingenious solution to a problem that stumped his own pastoral Maasai people and outside experts. Seeing that fires, fences, and fixed lights all failed to keep lions from the nearby Nairobi National Park from killing his father’s valuable cattle at night but noticing that the predators avoided his flashlight, the young tinkerer experiments with old electrical parts until he develops a stringable set of blinking lights that prove effective enough to earn him international recognition. Along with handsome group portraits of lions and livestock, Possentini depicts the author in both traditional Maasai and modern dress—guarding the herd as a 9-year-old, taking his mother’s new radio apart, and delivering a TED talk and reflecting that he had done “a Maasai warrior’s duty.” Coauthor Pollock adds an overview of the Maasai to go with the closing glossary and a useful list of recent picture books about other young African achievers. - Copyright 2022 Booklist.
Booklist - 07/01/2022 In a true tale bound to inspire all young would-be inventors, Turere describes how, at the age of 12, he came up with a cheap and ingenious solution to a problem that stumped his own pastoral Maasai people and outside experts. Seeing that fires, fences, and fixed lights all failed to keep lions from the nearby Nairobi National Park from killing his father’s valuable cattle at night but noticing that the predators avoided his flashlight, the young tinkerer experiments with old electrical parts until he develops a stringable set of blinking lights that prove effective enough to earn him international recognition. Along with handsome group portraits of lions and livestock, Possentini depicts the author in both traditional Maasai and modern dress—guarding the herd as a 9-year-old, taking his mother’s new radio apart, and delivering a TED talk and reflecting that he had done “a Maasai warrior’s duty.” Coauthor Pollock adds an overview of the Maasai to go with the closing glossary and a useful list of recent picture books about other young African achievers. - Copyright 2022 Booklist.
