The listing, Hardcover Book Lionel and the Book of Beasts (2006) by E Nesbit has ended.
Enchanting book by famous author E. Nesbit, author of The Story of the Treasure Seekers and The Railway Children.
Lionel is an ordinary boy until he is crowned king and finds a book of magical creatures. But when he opens it, a dragon accidentally comes out! How will Lionel vanquish it? Read the book to find out!
WARNING: This book, is not for sensitive children, as a manticora (lion with a man's head) is said to eat the village cats after dark, as well as the dragon eating people.
The people are mysteriously ok at the end of the book, but nothing is said about the cats. There is no graphic violence pictured, just a cat on a rooftop looking at the Manticore below, but still, just saying cats are eaten, might shock a sensitive child.