Get Free Shipping on orders over $49
Roar for Reading - Beth Ferry

Roar for Reading

By: Beth Ferry, Andrew Joyner (Illustrator)

Hardcover | 1 January 2025

At a Glance

Hardcover


RRP $24.99

$23.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $5.94 with

Ships in 3 to 5 business days

From New York Times bestselling author Beth Ferry and New York Times bestselling illustrator Andrew Joyner comes a moving picture book about a brave little lion who decides to speak out for stories by standing up to book banning.

Libraries and lions have a history so long no one’s quite sure how it began—maybe because books were once rare and needed fierce protectors? Still, it’s been a very long time since lions had to roar in the name of books. But when young Julius finds out that books are being banned at his local library, he becomes so filled with emotion that he ROARS!

Not all lions are librarians, but all librarians are lions in this inspiring tale of protecting the stories that connect us and defending books that hold ideas that can change the world.

- Resources in this edition have been adapted for Australia and New Zealand.
Industry Reviews
"Using “roar” as both anthem and acronym (“Recognize. Organize. Act. Respect.”), Ferry gives librarianship a creaturely prehistory in this picture book with an anti-censorship message. . . . Drawn in thin black lines, Joyner’s digital artwork saves its detailing for character expressions, which range from anger to joy as their movement finds its voice." 

More in General, Modern & Contemporary Fiction for Children & Teenagers

Chippy Chasers : The Champion-Chips - Sam Cotton

SIGNED COPY

RRP $14.99

$9.99

33%
OFF
Nightmare League - Reece Carter

SIGNED COPY

RRP $17.99

$12.99

28%
OFF
Building 903 - Lois Lowry

Paperback

RRP $17.99

$16.75

Fight or Flight : Diary of a Wimpy Kid (21) - Jeff Kinney

RRP $16.99

$10.99

35%
OFF
Astrid and the Accidental Slip Between Worlds - Jaclyn Moriarty

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
Bluey : Dance Mode - Bluey

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
Bluey : Where's Bluey and Bingo?: A Search-and-Find Book - Bluey
Fantastic Mr Fox : The Roald Dahl Clothbound Collection - Roald Dahl
The BFG : The Roald Dahl Clothbound Collection - Roald Dahl

RRP $32.99

$26.99

18%
OFF
The Little Book with No Pictures - B.J. Novak

RRP $16.99

$10.99

35%
OFF
All the Ways I See - Nas Campanella

RRP $24.99

$19.75

21%
OFF
Teen Titans: Together : Teen Titans - Kami Garcia

RRP $32.99

$26.99

18%
OFF
Salvage : A Graphic Novel - Renée Nault

RRP $34.99

$28.75

18%
OFF
Matilda : The Roald Dahl Clothbound Collection - Roald Dahl

RRP $32.99

$26.99

18%
OFF
Shadow Thieves: Island of Skulls : Shadow Thieves, Book 2 - Peter Burns
The Epic Mess of Melody Moss - Helen Dallimore

RRP $16.99

$15.99