The Horn Book Guide

BIOGRAPHIES

Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody

Boy on the Lion Throne: The Childhood of the 14th Dalai Lama

158 pp. | Roaring Brook/Flash Point | March, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59643-394-6 $18.95

(3) 4-6 This biography also serves as a window into Tibetan culture and an eye-opening introduction to the region's ongoing conflict with China. The text is lyrical and informative (though readers may find the six-year-old Dalai Lama's musings unbelievable: "He imagined that as the shade began to creep over the schoolroom, it also crept over his heart"). Occasional black-and-white photographs help readers visualize Tibet. Websites. Bib., ind.

Reviewer: Laura A. Woollett