Lydia Lion Goes Exploring

About the Book

Lydia Lion Goes Exploring is a collection of fresh and realistic read-aloud stories about a little lion cub discovering her world. Lydia’s adventures dramatically create an aura of danger or mishap for young listeners.

Lydia is a lot like kids want to be: out there doing their own thing, scary as it may be.

Each adventure is a stand-alone story involving other African animals. Each story ends with a comfortable resolution of the anxious moments of the day.

Lydia Lion Goes Exploring! is available in print or e-book.

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Endorsement. Lydia Lion and her brothers are captivating characters growing-up in their ever-expanding world. Lydia is independent, inquisitive and adventurous: a wonderful role model for girls and their siblings. She ventures further and further beyond her comfort zone, and along the way exposes herself and her siblings to new experiences that are realistic and believable.

Lydia Lion Goes Exploring has no anthropomorphic cartoon stories, but engages young listeners and readers while also teaching valuable lessons about life and animals in the wild.

About the Author

Jim Spensley is the father of three children to whom he read or told stories nightly. Lydia Lion was made up as he went. Lydia’s adventures became favorite bedtime stories that were recorded.

A now-retired systems engineer and manager, Jim’s more extensive writings were technical papers and reports, proposals, and political campaign materials.

As teens and young adults, his two daughters requested that the Lydia Lion stories be transcribed and re-written for their use as baby-sitters, later as part-time care-givers. Once Jim retired, the daughters encouraged (demanded) that the stories be refined for publication.

Jim lives with his wife in Minnesota and Arizona.