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Title details for Lion Lights by Richard Turere - Available

Lion Lights

My Invention That Made Peace with Lions

by Richard Turere
Shelly Pollock
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Winner of the 2023 Children's Africana Book Award (CABA), which is awarded by The Center for African Studies at Howard University.

Outstanding Science Trade Book for 2022 by the National Science Teaching Association and the Children's Book Council.

California Eureka Silver Honoree 2022

A story of ingenuity and perseverance.

Richard Turere's own story: Richard grew up in Kenya as a Maasai boy, herding his family's cattle, which represented their wealth and livelihood. Richard's challenge was to protect their cattle from the lions who prowled the night just outside the barrier of acacia branches that surrounded the farm's boma, or stockade. Though not well-educated, 12-year-old Richard loved tinkering with electronics. Using salvaged components, spending $10, he surrounded the boma with blinking lights, and the system works; it keeps lions away. His invention, Lion Lights, is now used in Africa, Asia, and South America to protect farm animals from predators.

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  • Release date

    August 2, 2022

  • Formats

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      • ISBN: 9780884488873
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  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 3.7
    • Interest Level: K-3(LG)
    • Text Difficulty: 2

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    • Booklist

      July 1, 2022
      Grades 1-3 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.

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:3.7
  • Interest Level:K-3(LG)
  • Text Difficulty:2

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