Alas, despite his lion's share of success, Thomas is not the king of beasts in his schoolyard. "The bigger kids like to give us sixth graders a hard time, trying to put us in trash cans and stuff ...

Powerful and majestic, the king of the beasts has no natural predators. But unthinkably, African lion numbers have plummeted by over 40% in the last three generations, due to loss of living space and ...

The Gnat only stops biting when the Lion agrees to call it the King of the Beasts. The Gnat is very pleased with itself and looks for somewhere suitably soft and comfortable to make a new home.